feu de joie

/\fø də ʒwa\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

feu de joie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Feu allumé en plein air lors des réjouissances publiques. Pronounced \fø də ʒwa\.

Key facts for feu de joie
PropertyValue
Headwordfeu de joie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fø də ʒwa\
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

feu de joie is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for feu de joie is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fø də ʒwa\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for feu de joie in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 feu de joie, spelled F-E-U- -D-E- -J-O-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Feu allumé en plein air lors des réjouissances publiques.
  2. 2
    Sentiment de bonheur intense.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "feu de joie"?
"feu de joie" is spelled F-E-U- -D-E- -J-O-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fø də ʒwa\.
What does "feu de joie" mean?
As a noun, "feu de joie" means: Feu allumé en plein air lors des réjouissances publiques.
How do you pronounce "feu de joie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "feu de joie" is \fø də ʒwa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "feu de joie" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.