enfant de fusil
\ɑ̃.fɑ̃ də fy.zi\
The verdict
“enfant de fusil” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Personne méprisable ou importune, parfois utilisé de manière plaisante sans intention réelle d’injurier.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enfant de fusil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.fɑ̃ də fy.zi\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “enfant de fusil” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
enfant de fusil is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.fɑ̃ də fy.zi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne méprisable ou importune, parfois utilisé de manière plaisante sans intention réelle d’injurier.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for enfant de fusil, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is enfant de fusil, spelled E-N-F-A-N-T- -D-E- -F-U-S-I-L.
Definition
- 1Personne méprisable ou importune, parfois utilisé de manière plaisante sans intention réelle d’injurier.
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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Using “enfant de fusil”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is E-N-F-A-N-T- -D-E- -F-U-S-I-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɑ̃.fɑ̃ də fy.zi\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
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.