death spiral
\ˈdɛθ ˈspaɪ.ɹəl\
The verdict
“death spiral” 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
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | death spiral |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈdɛθ ˈspaɪ.ɹəl\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “death spiral” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for death spiral is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈdɛθ ˈspaɪ.ɹəl\. 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 death spiral 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 death spiral, spelled D-E-A-T-H- -S-P-I-R-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)
- 2Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)
- 3Spirale fatale.
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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Using “death spiral”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-E-A-T-H- -S-P-I-R-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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