éclat de rire
\e.kla də ʁiʁ\
The verdict
“éclat de rire” 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Rire qui fuse spontanément.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | éclat de rire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kla də ʁiʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “éclat de rire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for éclat de rire is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.kla də ʁiʁ\. 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: "Rire qui fuse spontanément.".
No misspelling variants are generated for éclat de rire 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 éclat de rire, spelled É-C-L-A-T- -D-E- -R-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rire qui fuse spontanément.
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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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- The one correct French spelling is É-C-L-A-T- -D-E- -R-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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