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\

/\il‿j‿a kɛl.kə ʃoz də pu.ʁi o ʁwa.jom dy dan.maʁk\/ phrase

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.

Key facts for il y a quelque chose de pourri au royaume du Danemark
PropertyValue
Headwordil y a quelque chose de pourri au royaume du Danemark
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPhrase
IPA\il‿j‿a kɛl.kə ʃoz də pu.ʁi o ʁwa.jom dy dan.maʁk\
Letters53
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “il y a quelque chose de pourri au royaume du Danemark” sits in French frequency

il y a quelque chose de pourri au royaume du Danemark 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 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

  1. 1
    Il y a un gros problème sous-jacent.

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How do you spell "il y a quelque chose de pourri au royaume du Danemark"?
"il y a quelque chose de pourri au royaume du Danemark" is 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. The IPA pronunciation is \il‿j‿a kɛl.kə ʃoz də pu.ʁi o ʁwa.jom dy dan.maʁk\.
What does "il y a quelque chose de pourri au royaume du Danemark" mean?
As a phrase, "il y a quelque chose de pourri au royaume du Danemark" means: Il y a un gros problème sous-jacent.
How do you pronounce "il y a quelque chose de pourri au royaume du Danemark"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "il y a quelque chose de pourri au royaume du Danemark" is \il‿j‿a kɛl.kə ʃoz də pu.ʁi o ʁwa.jom dy dan.maʁk\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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"il y a quelque chose de pourri au royaume du Danemark" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “il y a quelque chose de pourri au royaume du Danemark”

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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.
  • Say it as \il‿j‿a kɛl.kə ʃoz də pu.ʁi o ʁwa.jom dy dan.maʁk\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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