alea jacta est
Letters
14 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
alea jacta est is aFrenchphrase. It means: Le sort en est jeté. Pronounced \a.le.a ʒak.ta ɛst\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alea jacta est |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \a.le.a ʒak.ta ɛst\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for alea jacta est is 14 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.le.a ʒak.ta ɛst\. 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: "Le sort en est jeté.".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for alea jacta est in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 alea jacta est, spelled A-L-E-A- -J-A-C-T-A- -E-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Le sort en est jeté.
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