détroit de Cook
\de.tʁwa də kuk\
The verdict
“détroit de Cook” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Détroit qui sépare l’île du Nord de l’île du Sud en Nouvelle-Zélande et relie la mer de Tasman à l’océan Pacifique Sud.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | détroit de Cook |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \de.tʁwa də kuk\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “détroit de Cook” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for détroit de Cook is 15 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.tʁwa də kuk\. 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: "Détroit qui sépare l’île du Nord de l’île du Sud en Nouvelle-Zélande et relie la mer de Tasman à l’océan Pacifique Sud.".
No misspelling variants are generated for détroit de Cook 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 détroit de Cook, spelled D-É-T-R-O-I-T- -D-E- -C-O-O-K, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Détroit qui sépare l’île du Nord de l’île du Sud en Nouvelle-Zélande et relie la mer de Tasman à l’océan Pacifique Sud.
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- The one correct French spelling is D-É-T-R-O-I-T- -D-E- -C-O-O-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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