enfant de l’amour
\ɑ̃.fɑ̃ də l‿a.muʁ\
The verdict
“enfant de l’amour” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enfant né par accident, en dehors d’une relation reconnue, synonyme d’enfant naturel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enfant-de-l-amour · enfant de l’amour · French
enfant de l’amour · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enfant de l’amour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.fɑ̃ də l‿a.muʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
enfant de l’amour is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.fɑ̃ də l‿a.muʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for enfant de l’amour, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is enfant de l’amour, spelled E-N-F-A-N-T- -D-E- -L-’-A-M-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1Enfant né par accident, en dehors d’une relation reconnue, synonyme d’enfant naturel.
- 2Enfant né d’un amour véritable entre deux êtres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how enfant de l’amour appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ma sœur, Odette, est née quand mes parents habitaient encore Rouen, dans les premières romanesques années de leur mariage, c’est une enfant de l’amour.
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.