coup
A quick, brilliant, and highly successful act.
Noun 4 meanings
A quick, brilliant, and highly successful act.
A coup d'état.
A takeover of one group by another.
A single roll of the wheel at roulette, or a deal in rouge et noir.
Verb 4 meanings
To execute a coup.
To subject (a nation) to a coup d'état.
To empty out, overturn, or tilt, such as from a cart or wheelbarrow.
To exchange, barter.
Etymology
Reborrowed in modern times from modern French coup (“blow, strike”), from Old French coup, colp, from Late Latin colpus, from Latin colaphus. Doublet of cope and colpus. The same Old French word had been borrowed into Middle English as coupe, caupe (with different pronunciation).
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COUP at a glance
COUP has 4 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (C 3 + O 1 + U 1 + P 3) and 11 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,002 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with coup
All rhymesOne letter away
- SOUP6
- COMP10
- COOP8
- COUR6
- LOUP6
- ROUP6
- DOUP7
- CAUP8
- MOUP8
- COWP11
- NOUP6
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