idiot du village
\i.djo dy vi.laʒ\
The verdict
“idiot du village” 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) - Celui qui est simple d’esprit, atteint d’un handicap mental.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | idiot du village |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.djo dy vi.laʒ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “idiot du village” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for idiot du village is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \i.djo dy vi.laʒ\. 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 idiot du village, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is idiot du village, spelled I-D-I-O-T- -D-U- -V-I-L-L-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Celui qui est simple d’esprit, atteint d’un handicap mental.
- 2Personne connue pour sa stupidité.
This word in other languages
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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Using “idiot du village”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is I-D-I-O-T- -D-U- -V-I-L-L-A-G-E - 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.