avaleur de sabre
\a.va.lœʁ də sabʁ\
The verdict
“avaleur de sabre” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Artiste de spectacle, dont le numéro consiste à introduire une lame (épée, sabre, couteau) dans la bouche et l’œsophage, et de la faire descendre jusqu’à l’estomac.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avaleur de sabre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.va.lœʁ də sabʁ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “avaleur de sabre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for avaleur de sabre is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.va.lœʁ də sabʁ\. 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: "Artiste de spectacle, dont le numéro consiste à introduire une lame (épée, sabre, couteau) dans la bouche et l’œsophage, et de la faire descendre jusqu’à l’estomac.".
No misspelling variants are generated for avaleur de sabre 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 avaleur de sabre, spelled A-V-A-L-E-U-R- -D-E- -S-A-B-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Artiste de spectacle, dont le numéro consiste à introduire une lame (épée, sabre, couteau) dans la bouche et l’œsophage, et de la faire descendre jusqu’à l’estomac.
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- The one correct French spelling is A-V-A-L-E-U-R- -D-E- -S-A-B-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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