cancer de la peau

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cancer de la peau is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɑ̃.sɛʁ də la po\. 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: "Cancer où la tumeur se développe sur la peau.".

No misspelling variants are generated for cancer de la peau 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 peau, spelled C-A-N-C-E-R- -D-E- -L-A- -P-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.