idiot utile
The verdict
“idiot utile” 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
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Personne, souvent perçue comme naïve, et qui, qu’elle en ait conscience ou non, sert les intérêts d’une faction politique, d’un groupe d’influence, d’un gouvernement ou d’un État hostile, d’un mouv...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | idiot utile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.djo y.til\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “idiot utile” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for idiot utile is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \i.djo y.til\. 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: "Personne, souvent perçue comme naïve, et qui, qu’elle en ait conscience ou non, sert les intérêts d’une faction politique, d’un groupe d’influence, d’un gouvernement ou d’un État hostile, d’un mouv...".
No misspelling variants are generated for idiot utile 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 idiot utile, spelled I-D-I-O-T- -U-T-I-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Personne, souvent perçue comme naïve, et qui, qu’elle en ait conscience ou non, sert les intérêts d’une faction politique, d’un groupe d’influence, d’un gouvernement ou d’un État hostile, d’un mouvement terroriste, etc., en promouvant et en diffusant leurs idées ou leur propagande aux dépens de ses propres intérêts.
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Using “idiot utile”
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- The one correct French spelling is I-D-I-O-T- -U-T-I-L-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \i.djo y.til\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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