Afrique du Sud
\a.fʁik dy syd\
The verdict
“Afrique du Sud” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pays situé à la pointe sud de l’Afrique, bordé au nord par la Namibie, le Botswana, et le Zimbabwe, au nord-est par le Mozambique et le Swaziland, à l’est par l’océan Indien, et à l’ouest par l’océ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Afrique du Sud |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.fʁik dy syd\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Afrique du Sud” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Afrique du Sud is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \a.fʁik dy syd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pays situé à la pointe sud de l’Afrique, bordé au nord par la Namibie, le Botswana, et le Zimbabwe, au nord-est par le Mozambique et le Swaziland, à l’est par l’océan Indien, et à l’ouest par l’océ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for Afrique du Sud in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Afrique du Sud, spelled A-F-R-I-Q-U-E- -D-U- -S-U-D.
Definition
- 1Pays situé à la pointe sud de l’Afrique, bordé au nord par la Namibie, le Botswana, et le Zimbabwe, au nord-est par le Mozambique et le Swaziland, à l’est par l’océan Indien, et à l’ouest par l’océan Atlantique Sud, dans lequel le Lesotho est enclavé, et dont la capitale administrative est Pretoria.
This word in other languages
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- The one correct French spelling is A-F-R-I-Q-U-E- -D-U- -S-U-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.