fin du monde

/\fɛ̃ dy mɔ̃d\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

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fin du monde is aFrenchnoun. It means: Moment de la disparition de tout l’Univers, de la Terre ou de l’humanité. Pronounced \fɛ̃ dy mɔ̃d\.

Key facts for fin du monde
PropertyValue
Headwordfin du monde
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fɛ̃ dy mɔ̃d\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

fin du monde 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 fin du monde is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛ̃ dy mɔ̃d\. 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 fin du monde 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 fin du monde, spelled F-I-N- -D-U- -M-O-N-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Moment de la disparition de tout l’Univers, de la Terre ou de l’humanité.
  2. 2
    Grande catastrophe ; grand malheur.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fin du monde"?
"fin du monde" is spelled F-I-N- -D-U- -M-O-N-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fɛ̃ dy mɔ̃d\.
What does "fin du monde" mean?
As a noun, "fin du monde" means: Moment de la disparition de tout l’Univers, de la Terre ou de l’humanité.
How do you pronounce "fin du monde"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fin du monde" is \fɛ̃ dy mɔ̃d\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fin du monde" 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.