cour du roi Pétaud

\kuʁ dy ʁwa pe.to\

/\kuʁ dy ʁwa pe.to\/ noun

The verdict

“cour du roi Pétaud” 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) - Lieu de confusion où règne le désordre.

Key facts for cour du roi Pétaud
PropertyValue
Headwordcour du roi Pétaud
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kuʁ dy ʁwa pe.to\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “cour du roi Pétaud” sits in French frequency

cour du roi Pétaud falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cour du roi Pétaud is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kuʁ dy ʁwa pe.to\. 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: "Lieu de confusion où règne le désordre.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cour du roi Pétaud, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cour du roi Pétaud, spelled C-O-U-R- -D-U- -R-O-I- -P-É-T-A-U-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Lieu de confusion où règne le désordre.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cour du roi Pétaud"?
"cour du roi Pétaud" is spelled C-O-U-R- -D-U- -R-O-I- -P-É-T-A-U-D. The IPA pronunciation is \kuʁ dy ʁwa pe.to\.
What does "cour du roi Pétaud" mean?
As a noun, "cour du roi Pétaud" means: Lieu de confusion où règne le désordre.
How do you pronounce "cour du roi Pétaud"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cour du roi Pétaud" is \kuʁ dy ʁwa pe.to\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cour du roi Pétaud" come from?
"cour du roi Pétaud" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Using “cour du roi Pétaud”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is C-O-U-R- -D-U- -R-O-I- -P-É-T-A-U-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \kuʁ dy ʁwa pe.to\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list