à fleur de peau
\a flœʁ də po\
The verdict
“à fleur de peau” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sans dépasser la surface de la peau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-a-fleur-de-peau · à fleur de peau · French
à fleur de peau · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "À" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | à fleur de peau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \a flœʁ də po\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
à fleur de peau is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \a flœʁ də po\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sans dépasser la surface de la peau.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for à fleur de peau, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is à fleur de peau, spelled À- -F-L-E-U-R- -D-E- -P-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Sans dépasser la surface de la peau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how à fleur de peau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son âme montait, pour ainsi dire, à fleur de peau et s’épanouissait sur sa figure.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.