attrapeur de rêves
\a.tʁa.pœʁ də ʁɛv\
The verdict
“attrapeur de rêves” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Objet artisanal originairement des indiens Ojibway et Chippewa qui le suspendaient au-dessus du berceau de leurs enfants pour retenir dans ses fils ce qui pouvait lui vouloir du mal.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | attrapeur de rêves |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.tʁa.pœʁ də ʁɛv\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “attrapeur de rêves” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for attrapeur de rêves is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.tʁa.pœʁ də ʁɛv\. 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: "Objet artisanal originairement des indiens Ojibway et Chippewa qui le suspendaient au-dessus du berceau de leurs enfants pour retenir dans ses fils ce qui pouvait lui vouloir du mal.".
attrapeur de rêves has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is attrapeur de rêves, spelled A-T-T-R-A-P-E-U-R- -D-E- -R-Ê-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Objet artisanal originairement des indiens Ojibway et Chippewa qui le suspendaient au-dessus du berceau de leurs enfants pour retenir dans ses fils ce qui pouvait lui vouloir du mal.
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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-T-T-R-A-P-E-U-R- -D-E- -R-Ê-V-E-S - 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.