échec de sauvetage
The verdict
“échec de sauvetage” 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
- 18
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Inefficacité des soins apportés à un malade victime de complications, le plus souvent postopératoires, qui entraîne sa mort.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | échec de sauvetage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ʃɛk də sov.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “échec de sauvetage” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for échec de sauvetage is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.ʃɛk də sov.taʒ\. 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: "Inefficacité des soins apportés à un malade victime de complications, le plus souvent postopératoires, qui entraîne sa mort.".
No misspelling variants are generated for échec de sauvetage 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 échec de sauvetage, spelled É-C-H-E-C- -D-E- -S-A-U-V-E-T-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Inefficacité des soins apportés à un malade victime de complications, le plus souvent postopératoires, qui entraîne sa mort.
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- The one correct French spelling is É-C-H-E-C- -D-E- -S-A-U-V-E-T-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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