étoile de David
\e.twal də da.vid\
The verdict
“étoile de David” 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) - Hexagramme régulier, symbole du judaïsme (✡), que l’on trouve notamment sur les façades des synagogues du monde entier, dans le sceau de Salomon, sur le drapeau israélien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etoile-de-david · étoile de David · French
étoile de David · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "É" 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 | étoile de David |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.twal də da.vid\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “étoile de David” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
étoile de David is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.twal də da.vid\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hexagramme régulier, symbole du judaïsme (✡), que l’on trouve notamment sur les façades des synagogues du monde entier, dans le sceau de Salomon, sur le drapeau israélien.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for étoile de David in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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. The correct French form is étoile de David, spelled É-T-O-I-L-E- -D-E- -D-A-V-I-D.
Definition
- 1Hexagramme régulier, symbole du judaïsme (✡), que l’on trouve notamment sur les façades des synagogues du monde entier, dans le sceau de Salomon, sur le drapeau israélien.
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