cadavre exquis
The verdict
“cadavre exquis” 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
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Jeu collectif qui vise à produire un texte ou un dessin à l’aide de fragments proposés successivement par chaque joueur, chacun ignorant les propositions de ses prédécesseurs. Pour la version textu...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cadavre exquis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.da.vʁ‿ɛk.ski\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cadavre exquis” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cadavre exquis is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.da.vʁ‿ɛk.ski\. 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 cadavre exquis 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 exquis, spelled C-A-D-A-V-R-E- -E-X-Q-U-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Jeu collectif qui vise à produire un texte ou un dessin à l’aide de fragments proposés successivement par chaque joueur, chacun ignorant les propositions de ses prédécesseurs. Pour la version textuelle, le joueur connait la nature (nominale, verbale, adjectivale, complémentaire) que doit revêtir sa proposition, afin que le texte finalement formé soit grammaticalement correct. Pour la version graphique, il peut éventuellement entrapercevoir une frange du dessin précédent.
- 2Le résultat du jeu, c’est-à-dire un texte grammaticalement correct, formé de mots généralement courants, mais incompréhensible (employé le plus souvent de façon métaphorique), ou un dessin, le plus souvent étrange.
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Using “cadavre exquis”
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- -E-X-Q-U-I-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ka.da.vʁ‿ɛk.ski\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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