ironie du sort
\i.ʁɔ.ni dy sɔʁ\
The verdict
“ironie du sort” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Désagrément si inattendu qu’il passe pour une amère moquerie du sort, le hasard ne coïncidant en rien avec ce qui était prévu ; ou encore, contraste étrange que présentent deux faits historiquement...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ironie du sort |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.ʁɔ.ni dy sɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ironie du sort” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ironie du sort is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \i.ʁɔ.ni dy sɔʁ\. 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: "Désagrément si inattendu qu’il passe pour une amère moquerie du sort, le hasard ne coïncidant en rien avec ce qui était prévu ; ou encore, contraste étrange que présentent deux faits historiquement...".
No misspelling variants are generated for ironie du sort 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 ironie du sort, spelled I-R-O-N-I-E- -D-U- -S-O-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Désagrément si inattendu qu’il passe pour une amère moquerie du sort, le hasard ne coïncidant en rien avec ce qui était prévu ; ou encore, contraste étrange que présentent deux faits historiquement rapprochés.
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- The one correct French spelling is I-R-O-N-I-E- -D-U- -S-O-R-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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