dame de cœur
The verdict
“dame de cœur” 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
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Carte à jouer, figure, faisant partie des cœurs d’un jeu de cartes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dame de cœur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dam də kœʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dame de cœur” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dame de cœur is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dam də kœʁ\. 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: "Carte à jouer, figure, faisant partie des cœurs d’un jeu de cartes.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dame de cœur 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 dame de cœur, spelled D-A-M-E- -D-E- -C-Œ-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Carte à jouer, figure, faisant partie des cœurs d’un jeu de cartes.
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Using “dame de cœur”
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- The one correct French spelling is D-A-M-E- -D-E- -C-Œ-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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