fils de chien

/\fis də ʃjɛ̃\/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

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Confusables

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similar word pairs

fils de chien is aFrenchnoun. It means: Expression de violent mépris équivalente à fils de pute, fils de bâtard, etc. Pronounced \fis də ʃjɛ̃\.

Key facts for fils de chien
PropertyValue
Headwordfils de chien
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fis də ʃjɛ̃\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

fils de chien 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 fils de chien is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fis də ʃjɛ̃\. 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: "Expression de violent mépris équivalente à fils de pute, fils de bâtard, etc.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for fils de chien 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 fils de chien, spelled F-I-L-S- -D-E- -C-H-I-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Expression de violent mépris équivalente à fils de pute, fils de bâtard, etc.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fils de chien"?
"fils de chien" is spelled F-I-L-S- -D-E- -C-H-I-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is \fis də ʃjɛ̃\.
What does "fils de chien" mean?
As a noun, "fils de chien" means: Expression de violent mépris équivalente à fils de pute, fils de bâtard, etc.
How do you pronounce "fils de chien"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fils de chien" is \fis də ʃjɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fils de chien" 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.