conte de fées
\kɔ̃t də fe\
The verdict
“conte de fées” 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Récit fabuleux de la littérature, qui met en scène des personnages merveilleux, ou encore des créatures imaginaires.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | conte de fées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃t də fe\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “conte de fées” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for conte de fées is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃t də fe\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for conte de fées 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 conte de fées, spelled C-O-N-T-E- -D-E- -F-É-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Récit fabuleux de la littérature, qui met en scène des personnages merveilleux, ou encore des créatures imaginaires.
- 2Livre sur lequel est imprimé ce récit.
- 3Tromperie niaise.
- 4Événement particulièrement favorable, circonstances idéales.
This word in other languages
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Using “conte de fées”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-O-N-T-E- -D-E- -F-É-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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