aberration des étoiles
\a.be.ʁa.sjɔ̃ de ze.twal\
The verdict
“aberration des étoiles” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
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- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Phénomène optique dû à la combinaison de la vitesse de la lumière et du mouvement de l’observateur (ou de la Terre), qui provoque une apparente déviation de la position des étoiles ou des astres pa...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aberration des étoiles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.be.ʁa.sjɔ̃ de ze.twal\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aberration des étoiles” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for aberration des étoiles is 22 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.be.ʁa.sjɔ̃ de ze.twal\. 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: "Phénomène optique dû à la combinaison de la vitesse de la lumière et du mouvement de l’observateur (ou de la Terre), qui provoque une apparente déviation de la position des étoiles ou des astres pa...".
No misspelling variants are generated for aberration des étoiles 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 aberration des étoiles, spelled A-B-E-R-R-A-T-I-O-N- -D-E-S- -É-T-O-I-L-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Phénomène optique dû à la combinaison de la vitesse de la lumière et du mouvement de l’observateur (ou de la Terre), qui provoque une apparente déviation de la position des étoiles ou des astres par rapport à leur position réelle.
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.
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- The one correct French spelling is A-B-E-R-R-A-T-I-O-N- -D-E-S- -É-T-O-I-L-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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