eau de feu

\o də fø\

/\o də fø\/ noun

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The verdict

“eau de feu” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
10
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Eau-de-vie, alcool frelaté ou dilué, le liquide utilisé par les cracheurs de feu, est lui, un dérivé du pétrole, dont les propriétés se rapprochent de celles du diesel, ou du Kérosène.

Key facts for eau de feu
PropertyValue
Headwordeau de feu
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\o də fø\
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “eau de feu” sits in French frequency

eau de feu falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

eau de feu is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \o də fø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

eau de feu doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is eau de feu, spelled E-A-U- -D-E- -F-E-U.

Definition

  1. 1
    Eau-de-vie, alcool frelaté ou dilué, le liquide utilisé par les cracheurs de feu, est lui, un dérivé du pétrole, dont les propriétés se rapprochent de celles du diesel, ou du Kérosène.
  2. 2
    Odontol (boisson alcoolisée).

This word in other languages

Feuerwasser(Deutsch)

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "eau de feu"?
"eau de feu" is spelled E-A-U- -D-E- -F-E-U. The IPA pronunciation is \o də fø\.
What does "eau de feu" mean?
As a noun, "eau de feu" means: Eau-de-vie, alcool frelaté ou dilué, le liquide utilisé par les cracheurs de feu, est lui, un dérivé du pétrole, dont les propriétés se rapprochent de celles du diesel, ou du Kérosène.
How do you pronounce "eau de feu"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "eau de feu" is \o də fø\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "eau de feu" come from?
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Using “eau de feu”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is E-A-U- -D-E- -F-E-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \o də fø\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list