diable de poussière
\djɑbl də pu.sjɛʁ\
The verdict
“diable de poussière” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tourbillon de sable, de poussière
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diable de poussière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \djɑbl də pu.sjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “diable de poussière” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
diable de poussière is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \djɑbl də pu.sjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tourbillon de sable, de poussière".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for diable de poussière, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is diable de poussière, spelled D-I-A-B-L-E- -D-E- -P-O-U-S-S-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Tourbillon de sable, de poussière
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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 “diable de poussière”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-I-A-B-L-E- -D-E- -P-O-U-S-S-I-È-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \djɑbl də pu.sjɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.