gros orteil
The verdict
“gros orteil” 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
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Orteil de l’intérieur du pied. À la différence du pouce de la main, le gros orteil n’est pas opposable.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gros orteil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁo.z‿ɔʁ.tɛj\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gros orteil” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gros orteil is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁo.z‿ɔʁ.tɛj\. 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: "Orteil de l’intérieur du pied. À la différence du pouce de la main, le gros orteil n’est pas opposable.".
No misspelling variants are generated for gros orteil 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 gros orteil, spelled G-R-O-S- -O-R-T-E-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Orteil de l’intérieur du pied. À la différence du pouce de la main, le gros orteil n’est pas opposable.
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- The one correct French spelling is G-R-O-S- -O-R-T-E-I-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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