hand, foot and mouth disease
\ˈhænd ˈfʊt ənd ˈmaʊθ dɪ.ˌziz\
The verdict
“hand, foot and mouth disease” 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
- 28
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Syndrome pieds-mains-bouche.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hand, foot and mouth disease |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈhænd ˈfʊt ənd ˈmaʊθ dɪ.ˌziz\ |
| Letters | 28 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hand, foot and mouth disease” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for hand, foot and mouth disease is 28 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈhænd ˈfʊt ənd ˈmaʊθ dɪ.ˌziz\. 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: "Syndrome pieds-mains-bouche.".
No misspelling variants are generated for hand, foot and mouth disease 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 hand, foot and mouth disease, spelled H-A-N-D-,- -F-O-O-T- -A-N-D- -M-O-U-T-H- -D-I-S-E-A-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Syndrome pieds-mains-bouche.
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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- The one correct French spelling is H-A-N-D-,- -F-O-O-T- -A-N-D- -M-O-U-T-H- -D-I-S-E-A-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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