détecteur de mensonge
\de.tɛk.tœʁ də mɑ̃.sɔ̃ʒ\
The verdict
“détecteur de mensonge” 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
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Machine mesurant les réactions psychophysiologiques d’un individu, qui sont ensuite lues et interprétées.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | détecteur de mensonge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.tɛk.tœʁ də mɑ̃.sɔ̃ʒ\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “détecteur de mensonge” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for détecteur de mensonge is 21 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.tɛk.tœʁ də mɑ̃.sɔ̃ʒ\. 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: "Machine mesurant les réactions psychophysiologiques d’un individu, qui sont ensuite lues et interprétées.".
No misspelling variants are generated for détecteur de mensonge 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 détecteur de mensonge, spelled D-É-T-E-C-T-E-U-R- -D-E- -M-E-N-S-O-N-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Machine mesurant les réactions psychophysiologiques d’un individu, qui sont ensuite lues et interprétées.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is D-É-T-E-C-T-E-U-R- -D-E- -M-E-N-S-O-N-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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