dauphin à flancs blancs
\do.fɛ̃ a flɑ̃ blɑ̃\
The verdict
“dauphin à flancs blancs” 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
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Espèce de grand dauphin du nord de l'océan Atlantique, qui a une bande blanche de chaque côté sous la nageoire dorsale.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dauphin à flancs blancs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \do.fɛ̃ a flɑ̃ blɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dauphin à flancs blancs” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dauphin à flancs blancs is 23 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \do.fɛ̃ a flɑ̃ blɑ̃\. 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: "Espèce de grand dauphin du nord de l'océan Atlantique, qui a une bande blanche de chaque côté sous la nageoire dorsale.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dauphin à flancs blancs 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 dauphin à flancs blancs, spelled D-A-U-P-H-I-N- -À- -F-L-A-N-C-S- -B-L-A-N-C-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce de grand dauphin du nord de l'océan Atlantique, qui a une bande blanche de chaque côté sous la nageoire dorsale.
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- The one correct French spelling is D-A-U-P-H-I-N- -À- -F-L-A-N-C-S- -B-L-A-N-C-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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