couleur de peau

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for couleur de peau is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku.lœʁ də 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: "Teinte extérieure visible de l’épiderme, déterminée par la présence de mélanine, de carotène et par la vascularisation, souvent utilisée comme critère social ou identitaire dans la perception des i...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for couleur de peau in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 couleur de peau, spelled C-O-U-L-E-U-R- -D-E- -P-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.