Belle au bois dormant
\bɛ.l‿o bwa dɔʁ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“Belle au bois dormant” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Héroïne d’un conte populaire consigné par écrit par Charles Perrault en France et Jacob et Wilhelm Grimm en Allemagne.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Belle au bois dormant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bɛ.l‿o bwa dɔʁ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Belle au bois dormant” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Belle au bois dormant is 21 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɛ.l‿o bwa dɔʁ.mɑ̃\. 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: "Héroïne d’un conte populaire consigné par écrit par Charles Perrault en France et Jacob et Wilhelm Grimm en Allemagne.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Belle au bois dormant 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 Belle au bois dormant, spelled B-E-L-L-E- -A-U- -B-O-I-S- -D-O-R-M-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Héroïne d’un conte populaire consigné par écrit par Charles Perrault en France et Jacob et Wilhelm Grimm en Allemagne.
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- The one correct French spelling is B-E-L-L-E- -A-U- -B-O-I-S- -D-O-R-M-A-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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