cadavre dans le placard

/\ka.davʁ dɑ̃ lə pla.kaʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“cadavre dans le placard” 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
23
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Lourd secret que l’on ne tient pas à divulguer.

Key facts for cadavre dans le placard
PropertyValue
Headwordcadavre dans le placard
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.davʁ dɑ̃ lə pla.kaʁ\
Letters23
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “cadavre dans le placard” sits in French frequency

cadavre dans le placard falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cadavre dans le placard is 23 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.davʁ dɑ̃ lə pla.kaʁ\. 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: "Lourd secret que l’on ne tient pas à divulguer.".

No misspelling variants are generated for cadavre dans le placard 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 cadavre dans le placard, spelled C-A-D-A-V-R-E- -D-A-N-S- -L-E- -P-L-A-C-A-R-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Lourd secret que l’on ne tient pas à divulguer.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cadavre dans le placard"?
"cadavre dans le placard" is spelled C-A-D-A-V-R-E- -D-A-N-S- -L-E- -P-L-A-C-A-R-D. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.davʁ dɑ̃ lə pla.kaʁ\.
What does "cadavre dans le placard" mean?
As a noun, "cadavre dans le placard" means: Lourd secret que l’on ne tient pas à divulguer.
How do you pronounce "cadavre dans le placard"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cadavre dans le placard" is \ka.davʁ dɑ̃ lə pla.kaʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cadavre dans le placard" come from?
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Using “cadavre dans le placard”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is C-A-D-A-V-R-E- -D-A-N-S- -L-E- -P-L-A-C-A-R-D — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \ka.davʁ dɑ̃ lə pla.kaʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.