jeu des combles
\ʒø de kɔ̃bl\
The verdict
“jeu des combles” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Jeu d'esprit répandu en France vers la fin du XIXᵉ siècle et au XXᵉ siècle, consistant à poser une question demandant l’indication d'un comble ; par exemple : « Quel est le comble pour le teinturie...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jeu des combles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒø de kɔ̃bl\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jeu des combles” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jeu des combles is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒø de kɔ̃bl\. 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: "Jeu d'esprit répandu en France vers la fin du XIXᵉ siècle et au XXᵉ siècle, consistant à poser une question demandant l’indication d'un comble ; par exemple : « Quel est le comble pour le teinturie...".
No misspelling variants are generated for jeu des combles 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 jeu des combles, spelled J-E-U- -D-E-S- -C-O-M-B-L-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Jeu d'esprit répandu en France vers la fin du XIXᵉ siècle et au XXᵉ siècle, consistant à poser une question demandant l’indication d'un comble ; par exemple : « Quel est le comble pour le teinturier ? C’est de mourir à la tâche ».
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is J-E-U- -D-E-S- -C-O-M-B-L-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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