homme de Néandertal
\ɔm də ne.ɑ̃.dɛʁ.tal\
The verdict
“homme de Néandertal” 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
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Espèce humaine, de nom scientifique Homo neanderthalensis, cousine des humains contemporains (Homo sapiens) et disparue de la surface de la terre il y a apparemment 30,000 ans environ.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | homme de Néandertal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔm də ne.ɑ̃.dɛʁ.tal\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “homme de Néandertal” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for homme de Néandertal is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔm də ne.ɑ̃.dɛʁ.tal\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for homme de Néandertal, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is homme de Néandertal, spelled H-O-M-M-E- -D-E- -N-É-A-N-D-E-R-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Espèce humaine, de nom scientifique Homo neanderthalensis, cousine des humains contemporains (Homo sapiens) et disparue de la surface de la terre il y a apparemment 30,000 ans environ.
- 2Personnage primitif, rustre.
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-O-M-M-E- -D-E- -N-É-A-N-D-E-R-T-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.