idiot du village
\i.djo dy vi.laʒ\
The verdict
“idiot du village” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui est simple d’esprit, atteint d’un handicap mental.
Corpus desk
Index FR-idiot-du-village · idiot du village · French
idiot du village · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| 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) |
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Rare enough to double-check
idiot du village is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.djo dy vi.laʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how idiot du village appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était évidemment un épileptique, le type même de ce que les gens des campagnes appellent l’idiot du village.
Comme l’écrivait Umberto Eco : «[…]. Aujourd’hui, l’idiot du village a le même droit de parole qu’un prix Nobel et est considéré comme un porteur de vérité ».
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.