jeu de mots

/\ʒø də mo\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

jeu de mots is aFrenchnoun. It means: Manipulation plaisante des mots fondée sur la ressemblance des mots. Pronounced \ʒø də mo\.

Key facts for jeu de mots
PropertyValue
Headwordjeu de mots
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʒø də mo\
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

jeu de mots is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for jeu de mots is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒø də mo\. 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: "Manipulation plaisante des mots fondée sur la ressemblance des mots.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for jeu de mots 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 jeu de mots, spelled J-E-U- -D-E- -M-O-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Manipulation plaisante des mots fondée sur la ressemblance des mots.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "jeu de mots"?
"jeu de mots" is spelled J-E-U- -D-E- -M-O-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒø də mo\.
What does "jeu de mots" mean?
As a noun, "jeu de mots" means: Manipulation plaisante des mots fondée sur la ressemblance des mots.
How do you pronounce "jeu de mots"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "jeu de mots" is \ʒø də mo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "jeu de mots" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.