baiser de la mort
\bɛ.ze də la mɔʁ\
The verdict
“baiser de la mort” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Échec et mat par la dame lorsque celle-ci se trouve sur une case adjacente au roi du vaincu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baiser de la mort |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛ.ze də la mɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “baiser de la mort” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for baiser de la mort is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɛ.ze də la mɔʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for baiser de la mort 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 baiser de la mort, spelled B-A-I-S-E-R- -D-E- -L-A- -M-O-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Échec et mat par la dame lorsque celle-ci se trouve sur une case adjacente au roi du vaincu.
- 2Nom donné à la mise à mort par contact avec un lymphocyte T d’une cellule défectueuse ou considérée comme tel par le système immunitaire.
- 3Geste amical qui entraîne la mort prochaine du destinataire.
- 4Dans l’univers de la mafia, signe qui annonce la mort prochaine d’un membre suite à une trahison (perçue ou avérée).
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- The one correct French spelling is B-A-I-S-E-R- -D-E- -L-A- -M-O-R-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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