valoir le coup
The verdict
“valoir le coup” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Être suffisamment intéressant pour se donner la peine de le faire, de l’obtenir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | valoir le coup |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \va.lwaʁ lə ku\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “valoir le coup” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for valoir le coup is 14 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \va.lwaʁ lə ku\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Être suffisamment intéressant pour se donner la peine de le faire, de l’obtenir.".
No misspelling variants are generated for valoir le coup in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is valoir le coup, spelled V-A-L-O-I-R- -L-E- -C-O-U-P, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Être suffisamment intéressant pour se donner la peine de le faire, de l’obtenir.
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Using “valoir le coup”
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- The one correct French spelling is V-A-L-O-I-R- -L-E- -C-O-U-P - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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