diarrhée du voyageur
\dja.ʁe dy vwa.ja.ʒœʁ\
The verdict
“diarrhée du voyageur” 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
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Infection de type gastro-entérite se manifestant par une diarrhée associée à des symptômes tels que douleurs et crampes abdominales, nausée, vomissements ou malaises, survenant chez le voyageur à d...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diarrhée du voyageur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dja.ʁe dy vwa.ja.ʒœʁ\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “diarrhée du voyageur” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for diarrhée du voyageur is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dja.ʁe dy vwa.ja.ʒœʁ\. 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: "Infection de type gastro-entérite se manifestant par une diarrhée associée à des symptômes tels que douleurs et crampes abdominales, nausée, vomissements ou malaises, survenant chez le voyageur à d...".
No misspelling variants are generated for diarrhée du voyageur 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 diarrhée du voyageur, spelled D-I-A-R-R-H-É-E- -D-U- -V-O-Y-A-G-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Infection de type gastro-entérite se manifestant par une diarrhée associée à des symptômes tels que douleurs et crampes abdominales, nausée, vomissements ou malaises, survenant chez le voyageur à destination d’un pays à faible niveau d’hygiène alimentaire ou hydrique.
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- The one correct French spelling is D-I-A-R-R-H-É-E- -D-U- -V-O-Y-A-G-E-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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