effet boule de neige
\e.fɛ bul də nɛʒ\
The verdict
“effet boule de neige” 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
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Conséquences d’un événement qui se traduisent par une augmentation géométrique, exponentielle de faits liés.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | effet boule de neige |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.fɛ bul də nɛʒ\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “effet boule de neige” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for effet boule de neige is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.fɛ bul də nɛʒ\. 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: "Conséquences d’un événement qui se traduisent par une augmentation géométrique, exponentielle de faits liés.".
No misspelling variants are generated for effet boule de neige 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 effet boule de neige, spelled E-F-F-E-T- -B-O-U-L-E- -D-E- -N-E-I-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Conséquences d’un événement qui se traduisent par une augmentation géométrique, exponentielle de faits liés.
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- The one correct French spelling is E-F-F-E-T- -B-O-U-L-E- -D-E- -N-E-I-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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