gilet de sauvetage
\ʒi.lɛ də sov.taʒ\
The verdict
“gilet de sauvetage” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dispositif qui permet à une personne, en cas de chute dans l’eau, de flotter plus facilement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gilet de sauvetage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒi.lɛ də sov.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gilet de sauvetage” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gilet de sauvetage is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒi.lɛ də sov.taʒ\. 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: "Dispositif qui permet à une personne, en cas de chute dans l’eau, de flotter plus facilement.".
gilet de sauvetage doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is gilet de sauvetage, spelled G-I-L-E-T- -D-E- -S-A-U-V-E-T-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Dispositif qui permet à une personne, en cas de chute dans l’eau, de flotter plus facilement.
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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 sauvetage”
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- -S-A-U-V-E-T-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʒi.lɛ də sov.taʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.