cancer de la bouche
\kɑ̃.sɛʁ dɛ la buʃ\
The verdict
“cancer de la bouche” 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) - Forme de cancer qui se développe dans la bouche.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cancer de la bouche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.sɛʁ dɛ la buʃ\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cancer de la bouche” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cancer de la bouche is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɑ̃.sɛʁ dɛ la buʃ\. 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: "Forme de cancer qui se développe dans la bouche.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cancer de la bouche 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 cancer de la bouche, spelled C-A-N-C-E-R- -D-E- -L-A- -B-O-U-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Forme de cancer qui se développe dans la bouche.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “cancer de la bouche”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-N-C-E-R- -D-E- -L-A- -B-O-U-C-H-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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