couloir de la mort
\ku.lwaʁ də la mɔʁ\
The verdict
“couloir de la mort” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Prison, ou quartier d’une prison réservé aux condamnés à mort qui attendent leur exécution.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couloir de la mort |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.lwaʁ də la mɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “couloir de la mort” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for couloir de la mort is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku.lwaʁ də la mɔʁ\. 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: "Prison, ou quartier d’une prison réservé aux condamnés à mort qui attendent leur exécution.".
No misspelling variants are generated for couloir de la mort 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 couloir de la mort, spelled C-O-U-L-O-I-R- -D-E- -L-A- -M-O-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Prison, ou quartier d’une prison réservé aux condamnés à mort qui attendent leur exécution.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-O-U-L-O-I-R- -D-E- -L-A- -M-O-R-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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