idiot du village

/\i.djo dy vi.laʒ\/ noun

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

idiot du village is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celui qui est simple d’esprit, atteint d’un handicap mental. Pronounced \i.djo dy vi.laʒ\.

Key facts for idiot du village
PropertyValue
Headwordidiot du village
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\i.djo dy vi.laʒ\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

idiot du village is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for idiot du village is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, 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.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for idiot du village in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 idiot du village, spelled I-D-I-O-T- -D-U- -V-I-L-L-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celui qui est simple d’esprit, atteint d’un handicap mental.
  2. 2
    Personne connue pour sa stupidité.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "idiot du village"?
"idiot du village" is spelled I-D-I-O-T- -D-U- -V-I-L-L-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \i.djo dy vi.laʒ\.
What does "idiot du village" mean?
As a noun, "idiot du village" means: Celui qui est simple d’esprit, atteint d’un handicap mental.
How do you pronounce "idiot du village"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "idiot du village" is \i.djo dy vi.laʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "idiot du village" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.