jeu des erreurs
\ʒø dɛ.z‿ɛ.ʁœʁ\
The verdict
“jeu des erreurs” 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 de type casse-tête se présentant sous la forme de deux images placées côte à côte et dans laquelle malgré une apparence identique, un certain nombre de différences (les « erreurs ») ont été sci...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jeu des erreurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒø dɛ.z‿ɛ.ʁœʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jeu des erreurs” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jeu des erreurs is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒø dɛ.z‿ɛ.ʁœʁ\. 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 de type casse-tête se présentant sous la forme de deux images placées côte à côte et dans laquelle malgré une apparence identique, un certain nombre de différences (les « erreurs ») ont été sci...".
No misspelling variants are generated for jeu des erreurs 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 erreurs, spelled J-E-U- -D-E-S- -E-R-R-E-U-R-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Jeu de type casse-tête se présentant sous la forme de deux images placées côte à côte et dans laquelle malgré une apparence identique, un certain nombre de différences (les « erreurs ») ont été sciemment introduites.
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- The one correct French spelling is J-E-U- -D-E-S- -E-R-R-E-U-R-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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