house of ill fame
\ˈhaʊs ɒv ˈɪl ˈfeɪm\
The verdict
“house of ill fame” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Bordel, lupanar, maison close.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | house of ill fame |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈhaʊs ɒv ˈɪl ˈfeɪm\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “house of ill fame” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for house of ill fame is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈhaʊs ɒv ˈɪl ˈfeɪm\. 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: "Bordel, lupanar, maison close.".
No misspelling variants are generated for house of ill fame 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 house of ill fame, spelled H-O-U-S-E- -O-F- -I-L-L- -F-A-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bordel, lupanar, maison close.
Synonyms
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-U-S-E- -O-F- -I-L-L- -F-A-M-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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