il y a quelque chose de pourri au royaume du Danemark
\il‿j‿a kɛl.kə ʃoz də pu.ʁi o ʁwa.jom dy dan.maʁk\
The verdict
“il y a quelque chose de pourri au royaume du Danemark” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 53
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Il y a un gros problème sous-jacent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | il y a quelque chose de pourri au royaume du Danemark |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \il‿j‿a kɛl.kə ʃoz də pu.ʁi o ʁwa.jom dy dan.maʁk\ |
| Letters | 53 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “il y a quelque chose de pourri au royaume du Danemark” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for il y a quelque chose de pourri au royaume du Danemark is 53 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \il‿j‿a kɛl.kə ʃoz də pu.ʁi o ʁwa.jom dy dan.maʁk\. 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: "Il y a un gros problème sous-jacent.".
No misspelling variants are generated for il y a quelque chose de pourri au royaume du Danemark 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 il y a quelque chose de pourri au royaume du Danemark, spelled I-L- -Y- -A- -Q-U-E-L-Q-U-E- -C-H-O-S-E- -D-E- -P-O-U-R-R-I- -A-U- -R-O-Y-A-U-M-E- -D-U- -D-A-N-E-M-A-R-K, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Il y a un gros problème sous-jacent.
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- The one correct French spelling is I-L- -Y- -A- -Q-U-E-L-Q-U-E- -C-H-O-S-E- -D-E- -P-O-U-R-R-I- -A-U- -R-O-Y-A-U-M-E- -D-U- -D-A-N-E-M-A-R-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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