homme du monde
The verdict
“homme du monde” 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
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Nom donné dans la classe sociale dominante de la société à un homme qui allie la fortune, l’éducation, l’élégance, le savoir-vivre, etc.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | homme du monde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔm dy mɔ̃d\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “homme du monde” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for homme du monde is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔm dy mɔ̃d\. 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.
No misspelling variants are generated for homme du monde 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 homme du monde, spelled H-O-M-M-E- -D-U- -M-O-N-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom donné dans la classe sociale dominante de la société à un homme qui allie la fortune, l’éducation, l’élégance, le savoir-vivre, etc.
- 2Celui qui est cultivé mais qui n’est ni un savant, ni un artiste.
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Using “homme du monde”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is H-O-M-M-E- -D-U- -M-O-N-D-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɔm dy mɔ̃d\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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