enfant du sol
\ɑ̃.fɑ̃ dy sɔl\
The verdict
“enfant du sol” 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Après la Conquête (1763), habitant du Canada, francophone, descendant des colons de la Nouvelle-France, par opposition aux nouveaux arrivants britanniques.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enfant du sol |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.fɑ̃ dy sɔl\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “enfant du sol” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for enfant du sol is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.fɑ̃ dy sɔl\. 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: "Après la Conquête (1763), habitant du Canada, francophone, descendant des colons de la Nouvelle-France, par opposition aux nouveaux arrivants britanniques.".
No misspelling variants are generated for enfant du sol 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 enfant du sol, spelled E-N-F-A-N-T- -D-U- -S-O-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Après la Conquête (1763), habitant du Canada, francophone, descendant des colons de la Nouvelle-France, par opposition aux nouveaux arrivants britanniques.
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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- The one correct French spelling is E-N-F-A-N-T- -D-U- -S-O-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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