dos de la selle
\dɔ də la sɛl\
The verdict
“dos de la selle” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Paroi postérieure de la fosse hypophysaire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dos de la selle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɔ də la sɛl\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dos de la selle” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dos de la selle is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɔ də la sɛl\. 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: "Paroi postérieure de la fosse hypophysaire.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dos de la selle 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 dos de la selle, spelled D-O-S- -D-E- -L-A- -S-E-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Paroi postérieure de la fosse hypophysaire.
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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 “dos de la selle”
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- The one correct French spelling is D-O-S- -D-E- -L-A- -S-E-L-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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