enterrement de vie de garçon

/\ɑ̃.tɛʁ.mɑ̃ də vi də ɡaʁ.sɔ̃\/ noun

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.

Key facts for enterrement de vie de garçon
PropertyValue
Headwordenterrement de vie de garçon
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɑ̃.tɛʁ.mɑ̃ də vi də ɡaʁ.sɔ̃\
Letters28
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “enterrement de vie de garçon” sits in French frequency

enterrement de vie de garçon falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Fête organisée pour un fiancé à la veille de son mariage.

This word in other languages

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "enterrement de vie de garçon"?
"enterrement de vie de garçon" is 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. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.tɛʁ.mɑ̃ də vi də ɡaʁ.sɔ̃\.
What does "enterrement de vie de garçon" mean?
As a noun, "enterrement de vie de garçon" means: Fête organisée pour un fiancé à la veille de son mariage.
How do you pronounce "enterrement de vie de garçon"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "enterrement de vie de garçon" is \ɑ̃.tɛʁ.mɑ̃ də vi də ɡaʁ.sɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "enterrement de vie de garçon" come from?
"enterrement de vie de garçon" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Using “enterrement de vie de garçon”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • 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.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words

Nearby French words

Other entries that begin with the letter E in our French index:

Explore PlainSpell

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.