éléphant du Sri Lanka
\e.le.fɑ̃ dy sʁi lɑ̃.ka\
The verdict
“éléphant du Sri Lanka” 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
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Sous-espèce d’éléphant d’Asie endémique du Sri Lanka.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | éléphant du Sri Lanka |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.le.fɑ̃ dy sʁi lɑ̃.ka\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “éléphant du Sri Lanka” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for éléphant du Sri Lanka is 21 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.le.fɑ̃ dy sʁi lɑ̃.ka\. 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: "Sous-espèce d’éléphant d’Asie endémique du Sri Lanka.".
No misspelling variants are generated for éléphant du Sri Lanka 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 éléphant du Sri Lanka, spelled É-L-É-P-H-A-N-T- -D-U- -S-R-I- -L-A-N-K-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sous-espèce d’éléphant d’Asie endémique du Sri Lanka.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is É-L-É-P-H-A-N-T- -D-U- -S-R-I- -L-A-N-K-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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