gilet de peau
\ʒi.lɛ də po\
The verdict
“gilet de peau” 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
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Maillot de corps que l’on porte à même la peau.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gilet de peau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒi.lɛ də po\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gilet de peau” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gilet de peau is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒi.lɛ də po\. 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: "Maillot de corps que l’on porte à même la peau.".
Zero misspellings are on record for gilet de peau in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is gilet de peau, spelled G-I-L-E-T- -D-E- -P-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Maillot de corps que l’on porte à même la peau.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “gilet de peau”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-I-L-E-T- -D-E- -P-E-A-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʒi.lɛ də po\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.