enculeur de mouches
\ɑ̃.ky.lœʁ.də.muʃ\
The verdict
“enculeur de mouches” 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
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Individu pointilleux, tatillon, qui ergote.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enculeur de mouches |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ky.lœʁ.də.muʃ\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “enculeur de mouches” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for enculeur de mouches is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.ky.lœʁ.də.muʃ\. 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: "Individu pointilleux, tatillon, qui ergote.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for enculeur de mouches, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is enculeur de mouches, spelled E-N-C-U-L-E-U-R- -D-E- -M-O-U-C-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1Individu pointilleux, tatillon, qui ergote.
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- The one correct French spelling is E-N-C-U-L-E-U-R- -D-E- -M-O-U-C-H-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.