droit du sol
\dʁwa dy sɔl\
The verdict
“droit du sol” 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
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Principe juridique qui fait que les personnes nées sur le territoire d’un pays sont automatiquement naturalisées ou ont le droit à la nationalité du pays en question.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | droit du sol |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁwa dy sɔl\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “droit du sol” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for droit du sol is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dʁwa dy sɔl\. 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: "Principe juridique qui fait que les personnes nées sur le territoire d’un pays sont automatiquement naturalisées ou ont le droit à la nationalité du pays en question.".
No misspelling variants are generated for droit du sol 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 droit du sol, spelled D-R-O-I-T- -D-U- -S-O-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Principe juridique qui fait que les personnes nées sur le territoire d’un pays sont automatiquement naturalisées ou ont le droit à la nationalité du pays en question.
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- The one correct French spelling is D-R-O-I-T- -D-U- -S-O-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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