être au ciel
\ɛ.tʁ‿o sjɛl\
The verdict
“être au ciel” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Être mort.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | être au ciel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ.tʁ‿o sjɛl\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “être au ciel” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for être au ciel is 12 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ.tʁ‿o sjɛl\. 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: "Être mort.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for être au ciel, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is être au ciel, spelled Ê-T-R-E- -A-U- -C-I-E-L.
Definition
- 1Être mort.
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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Using “être au ciel”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is Ê-T-R-E- -A-U- -C-I-E-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɛ.tʁ‿o sjɛl\ (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
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.