attraper froid
\a.tʁa.pe fʁwa\
The verdict
“attraper froid” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Développer une maladie respiratoire (rhume, grippe), ORL (trachéite, angine, otite) ou un état grippal, la cause de la maladie étant, dans la croyance populaire, provoquée par le froid ; tomber mal...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | attraper froid |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.tʁa.pe fʁwa\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “attraper froid” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for attraper froid is 14 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.tʁa.pe fʁwa\. 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: "Développer une maladie respiratoire (rhume, grippe), ORL (trachéite, angine, otite) ou un état grippal, la cause de la maladie étant, dans la croyance populaire, provoquée par le froid ; tomber mal...".
No misspelling variants are generated for attraper froid 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 attraper froid, spelled A-T-T-R-A-P-E-R- -F-R-O-I-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Développer une maladie respiratoire (rhume, grippe), ORL (trachéite, angine, otite) ou un état grippal, la cause de la maladie étant, dans la croyance populaire, provoquée par le froid ; tomber malade à cause du froid.
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- The one correct French spelling is A-T-T-R-A-P-E-R- -F-R-O-I-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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