dégât des eaux
The verdict
“dégât des eaux” 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
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Type de sinistre où un bien est dégradé du fait de la présence d'eau.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dégât des eaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.ga de.z‿o\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dégât des eaux” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dégât des eaux is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.ga de.z‿o\. 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: "Type de sinistre où un bien est dégradé du fait de la présence d'eau.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dégât des eaux 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 dégât des eaux, spelled D-É-G-Â-T- -D-E-S- -E-A-U-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Type de sinistre où un bien est dégradé du fait de la présence d'eau.
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 “dégât des eaux”
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- The one correct French spelling is D-É-G-Â-T- -D-E-S- -E-A-U-X - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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