dépouille mortelle
\de.puj mɔʁ.tɛl\
The verdict
“dépouille mortelle” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Corps d’une personne après sa mort.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dépouille mortelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.puj mɔʁ.tɛl\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dépouille mortelle” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dépouille mortelle is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.puj mɔʁ.tɛl\. 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: "Corps d’une personne après sa mort.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for dépouille mortelle in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dépouille mortelle, spelled D-É-P-O-U-I-L-L-E- -M-O-R-T-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Corps d’une personne après sa mort.
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 “dépouille mortelle”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-É-P-O-U-I-L-L-E- -M-O-R-T-E-L-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \de.puj mɔʁ.tɛl\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.