idiots du village

/\i.djo dy vi.laʒ\/ noun

The verdict

“idiots 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
17
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Pluriel de idiot du village.

Key facts for idiots du village
PropertyValue
Headwordidiots du village
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\i.djo dy vi.laʒ\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “idiots du village” sits in French frequency

idiots du village falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for idiots du village is 17 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. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de idiot du village.".

No misspelling variants are generated for idiots du village 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 idiots du village, spelled I-D-I-O-T-S- -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
    Pluriel de idiot du village.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "idiots du village"?
"idiots du village" is spelled I-D-I-O-T-S- -D-U- -V-I-L-L-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \i.djo dy vi.laʒ\.
What does "idiots du village" mean?
As a noun, "idiots du village" means: Pluriel de idiot du village.
How do you pronounce "idiots du village"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "idiots 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 "idiots du village" come from?
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Using “idiots 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-S- -D-U- -V-I-L-L-A-G-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \i.djo dy vi.laʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.