enterrement de vie de garçon
The verdict
“enterrement de vie de garçon” 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
- 28
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Fête organisée pour un fiancé à la veille de son mariage.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enterrement de vie de garçon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tɛʁ.mɑ̃ də vi də ɡaʁ.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 28 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “enterrement de vie de garçon” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for enterrement de vie de garçon is 28 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.tɛʁ.mɑ̃ də vi də ɡaʁ.sɔ̃\. 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: "Fête organisée pour un fiancé à la veille de son mariage.".
No misspelling variants are generated for enterrement de vie de garçon 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 enterrement de vie de garçon, spelled E-N-T-E-R-R-E-M-E-N-T- -D-E- -V-I-E- -D-E- -G-A-R-Ç-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fête organisée pour un fiancé à la veille de son mariage.
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- The one correct French spelling is E-N-T-E-R-R-E-M-E-N-T- -D-E- -V-I-E- -D-E- -G-A-R-Ç-O-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɑ̃.tɛʁ.mɑ̃ də vi də ɡaʁ.sɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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