cadavre dans le placard
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cadavre dans le placard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.davʁ dɑ̃ lə pla.kaʁ\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cadavre dans le placard” sits in French frequency
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
- 1Lourd secret que l’on ne tient pas à divulguer.
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- 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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