hockey sur glace
The verdict
“hockey sur glace” 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
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Sport d’équipe dont la compétition se déroule sur une patinoire spécialement aménagée et dont l’objectif est de marquer des buts en envoyant un palet à l’intérieur du but adverse, placé à l’autre e...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hockey sur glace |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\ɔ.kɛ syʁ ɡlas\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hockey sur glace” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for hockey sur glace is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h aspiré))\ɔ.kɛ syʁ ɡlas\. 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 d’équipe dont la compétition se déroule sur une patinoire spécialement aménagée et dont l’objectif est de marquer des buts en envoyant un palet à l’intérieur du but adverse, placé à l’autre e...".
No misspelling variants are generated for hockey sur glace 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 hockey sur glace, spelled H-O-C-K-E-Y- -S-U-R- -G-L-A-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sport d’équipe dont la compétition se déroule sur une patinoire spécialement aménagée et dont l’objectif est de marquer des buts en envoyant un palet à l’intérieur du but adverse, placé à l’autre extrémité de la patinoire.
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Using “hockey sur glace”
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- The one correct French spelling is H-O-C-K-E-Y- -S-U-R- -G-L-A-C-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as ^((h aspiré))\ɔ.kɛ syʁ ɡlas\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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