but contre son camp
\byt kɔ̃.tʁə sɔ̃ kɑ̃\
The verdict
“but contre son camp” 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
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — But marqué par un joueur dans ses propres buts.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | but contre son camp |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \byt kɔ̃.tʁə sɔ̃ kɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “but contre son camp” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for but contre son camp is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \byt kɔ̃.tʁə sɔ̃ kɑ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for but contre son camp 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 but contre son camp, spelled B-U-T- -C-O-N-T-R-E- -S-O-N- -C-A-M-P, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1But marqué par un joueur dans ses propres buts.
- 2Parole ou acte qui se retourne contre la personne à son origine ou le groupe auquel la personne appartient.
This word in other languages
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-U-T- -C-O-N-T-R-E- -S-O-N- -C-A-M-P - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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