boule de cristal
\bul də kʁis.tal\
The verdict
“boule de cristal” 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) - Accessoire de divination utilisé par les voyants, permettant supposément d’y lire l’avenir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boule de cristal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bul də kʁis.tal\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “boule de cristal” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for boule de cristal is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bul də kʁis.tal\. 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: "Accessoire de divination utilisé par les voyants, permettant supposément d’y lire l’avenir.".
No misspelling variants are generated for boule de cristal 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 boule de cristal, spelled B-O-U-L-E- -D-E- -C-R-I-S-T-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Accessoire de divination utilisé par les voyants, permettant supposément d’y lire l’avenir.
This word in other languages
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- The one correct French spelling is B-O-U-L-E- -D-E- -C-R-I-S-T-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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