hockey sur gazon
\ɔ.kɛ syʁ ɡa.zɔ̃\
The verdict
“hockey sur gazon” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Sport où deux équipes de onze joueurs doivent rentrer une balle dans des buts en le frappant avec des crosses.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hockey sur gazon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.kɛ syʁ ɡa.zɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hockey sur gazon” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for hockey sur gazon is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.kɛ syʁ ɡa.zɔ̃\. 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: "Sport où deux équipes de onze joueurs doivent rentrer une balle dans des buts en le frappant avec des crosses.".
No misspelling variants are generated for hockey sur gazon in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is hockey sur gazon, spelled H-O-C-K-E-Y- -S-U-R- -G-A-Z-O-N.
Definition
- 1Sport où deux équipes de onze joueurs doivent rentrer une balle dans des buts en le frappant avec des crosses.
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 practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is H-O-C-K-E-Y- -S-U-R- -G-A-Z-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.