éclater au visage
\e.kla.te o vi.zaʒ\
The verdict
“éclater au visage” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Tomber ou exploser juste devant soi.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | éclater au visage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.kla.te o vi.zaʒ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “éclater au visage” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for éclater au visage is 17 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.kla.te o vi.zaʒ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for éclater au visage 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 éclater au visage, spelled É-C-L-A-T-E-R- -A-U- -V-I-S-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tomber ou exploser juste devant soi.
- 2Apparaître soudainement ; devenir évident.
Synonyms
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-E-R- -A-U- -V-I-S-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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