de derrière les fagots
\də dɛ.ʁjɛʁ le fa.ɡo\
The verdict
“de derrière les fagots” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - 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) - Qui est conservé pour vieillir, en parlant d’un vin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | de derrière les fagots |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \də dɛ.ʁjɛʁ le fa.ɡo\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “de derrière les fagots” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for de derrière les fagots is 22 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \də dɛ.ʁjɛʁ le fa.ɡo\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for de derrière les fagots 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 de derrière les fagots, spelled D-E- -D-E-R-R-I-È-R-E- -L-E-S- -F-A-G-O-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est conservé pour vieillir, en parlant d’un vin.
- 2Qui est précieusement conservé pour un usage particulier ou spécifique.
- 3Qui est d’une qualité particulière.
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-E- -D-E-R-R-I-È-R-E- -L-E-S- -F-A-G-O-T-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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