Grande Muraille de Chine
The verdict
“Grande Muraille de Chine” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 24
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: → voir Grande Muraille.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Grande Muraille de Chine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɑ̃d my.ʁaj də ʃin\ |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Grande Muraille de Chine” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Grande Muraille de Chine is 24 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁɑ̃d my.ʁaj də ʃin\. 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: "→ voir Grande Muraille.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Grande Muraille de Chine 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 Grande Muraille de Chine, spelled G-R-A-N-D-E- -M-U-R-A-I-L-L-E- -D-E- -C-H-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1→ voir Grande Muraille.
Synonyms
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Using “Grande Muraille de Chine”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-R-A-N-D-E- -M-U-R-A-I-L-L-E- -D-E- -C-H-I-N-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡʁɑ̃d my.ʁaj də ʃin\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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