canary in a coal mine

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for canary in a coal mine is 21 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kəˈnɛɹi ɪn ə ˈkəʊl maɪn\. 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: "Signe avant-coureur.".

No misspelling variants are generated for canary in a coal mine 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 canary in a coal mine, spelled C-A-N-A-R-Y- -I-N- -A- -C-O-A-L- -M-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.