aller entretenir le duc d’Aumale
\a.le ɑ̃.tʁət.niʁ lə dyk d‿o.mal\
The verdict
“aller entretenir le duc d’Aumale” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 32
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aller aux toilettes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aller-entretenir-le-duc- · aller entretenir le duc d’Aumale · French
aller entretenir le duc d’Aumale · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 32 letters
- VOW-12 12 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" 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 | aller entretenir le duc d’Aumale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.le ɑ̃.tʁət.niʁ lə dyk d‿o.mal\ |
| Letters | 32 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aller entretenir le duc d’Aumale » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aller entretenir le duc d’Aumale is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \a.le ɑ̃.tʁət.niʁ lə dyk d‿o.mal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Aller aux toilettes.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for aller entretenir le duc d’Aumale, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is aller entretenir le duc d’Aumale, spelled A-L-L-E-R- -E-N-T-R-E-T-E-N-I-R- -L-E- -D-U-C- -D-’-A-U-M-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Aller aux toilettes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how aller entretenir le duc d’Aumale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cottard qui avait besoin de s’éloigner un instant fit à mi-voix une plaisanterie qu’il avait apprise depuis peu et qu’il renouvelait chaque fois qu’il avait à aller au même endroit : « Il faut que j’aille entretenir un instant le duc d’Aumale »
This word in other languages
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.