dans la gueule du loup
\dɑ̃ la ɡœl dy lu\
The verdict
“dans la gueule du loup” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Dans un piège, dans un danger certain.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dans la gueule du loup |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \dɑ̃ la ɡœl dy lu\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dans la gueule du loup” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dans la gueule du loup is 22 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɑ̃ la ɡœl dy lu\. 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: "Dans un piège, dans un danger certain.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dans la gueule du loup 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 dans la gueule du loup, spelled D-A-N-S- -L-A- -G-U-E-U-L-E- -D-U- -L-O-U-P, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dans un piège, dans un danger certain.
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.
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- The one correct French spelling is D-A-N-S- -L-A- -G-U-E-U-L-E- -D-U- -L-O-U-P - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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