galette des rois
The verdict
“galette des rois” 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
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Galette contenant une fève, tradition de l’Épiphanie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | galette des rois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.lɛt de ʁwa\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “galette des rois” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for galette des rois is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡa.lɛt de ʁwa\. 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: "Galette contenant une fève, tradition de l’Épiphanie.".
No misspelling variants are generated for galette des rois 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 galette des rois, spelled G-A-L-E-T-T-E- -D-E-S- -R-O-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Galette contenant une fève, tradition de l’Épiphanie.
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- The one correct French spelling is G-A-L-E-T-T-E- -D-E-S- -R-O-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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