cimetière des éléphants
\sim.tjɛʁ dɛ.z‿e.le.fɑ̃\
The verdict
“cimetière des éléphants” 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
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Endroit mythique où les éléphants se rendraient pour mourir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cimetière des éléphants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sim.tjɛʁ dɛ.z‿e.le.fɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cimetière des éléphants” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cimetière des éléphants is 23 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sim.tjɛʁ dɛ.z‿e.le.fɑ̃\. 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 cimetière des éléphants 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 cimetière des éléphants, spelled C-I-M-E-T-I-È-R-E- -D-E-S- -É-L-É-P-H-A-N-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Endroit mythique où les éléphants se rendraient pour mourir.
- 2Expression employée de façon métaphorique pour évoquer le déclin ou la mise au rebut de personnes ou d’objets jadis valorisés.
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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- The one correct French spelling is C-I-M-E-T-I-È-R-E- -D-E-S- -É-L-É-P-H-A-N-T-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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