fosse commune
The verdict
“fosse commune” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Tombe collective utilisée pour les indigents, les corps non réclamés et, lors des catastrophes, afin d’enterrer au plus vite de nombreux cadavres.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fosse commune |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fos kɔ.myn\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fosse commune” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fosse commune is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fos kɔ.myn\. 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: "Tombe collective utilisée pour les indigents, les corps non réclamés et, lors des catastrophes, afin d’enterrer au plus vite de nombreux cadavres.".
No misspelling variants are generated for fosse commune in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 fosse commune, spelled F-O-S-S-E- -C-O-M-M-U-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tombe collective utilisée pour les indigents, les corps non réclamés et, lors des catastrophes, afin d’enterrer au plus vite de nombreux cadavres.
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Using “fosse commune”
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- The one correct French spelling is F-O-S-S-E- -C-O-M-M-U-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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