jeteur de sort
\ʒə.tœʁ də sɔʁ\
The verdict
“jeteur de 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) — Celui qui jette un sort, qui fait des maléfices, des sortilèges.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jeteur de sort |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒə.tœʁ də sɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jeteur de sort” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jeteur de sort is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒə.tœʁ də 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: "Celui qui jette un sort, qui fait des maléfices, des sortilèges.".
No misspelling variants are generated for jeteur de 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 jeteur de sort, spelled J-E-T-E-U-R- -D-E- -S-O-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celui qui jette un sort, qui fait des maléfices, des sortilèges.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is J-E-T-E-U-R- -D-E- -S-O-R-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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