œil pour œil, dent pour dent

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for œil pour œil, dent pour dent is 28 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \œj pu.ʁ‿œj dɑ̃ puʁ dɑ̃\. 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: "Précepte de la peine du talion qui consiste à traiter un coupable de la même façon qu’il a traité ou voulu traiter les autres.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for œil pour œil, dent pour dent 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 œil pour œil, dent pour dent, spelled Œ-I-L- -P-O-U-R- -Œ-I-L-,- -D-E-N-T- -P-O-U-R- -D-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.