eau non potable
\o nɔ̃ pɔ.tabl\
The verdict
“eau non potable” 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) - Eau dont les caractéristiques physico-chimiques, microbiologiques ou organoleptiques ne répondent pas aux normes sanitaires de l’eau potable et qui ne peut donc pas être utilisée pour la consommati...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eau non potable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o nɔ̃ pɔ.tabl\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “eau non potable” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for eau non potable is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o nɔ̃ pɔ.tabl\. 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: "Eau dont les caractéristiques physico-chimiques, microbiologiques ou organoleptiques ne répondent pas aux normes sanitaires de l’eau potable et qui ne peut donc pas être utilisée pour la consommati...".
eau non potable 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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is eau non potable, spelled E-A-U- -N-O-N- -P-O-T-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Eau dont les caractéristiques physico-chimiques, microbiologiques ou organoleptiques ne répondent pas aux normes sanitaires de l’eau potable et qui ne peut donc pas être utilisée pour la consommation humaine.
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 “eau non potable”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is E-A-U- -N-O-N- -P-O-T-A-B-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \o nɔ̃ pɔ.tabl\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.