jeu du foulard
\ʒø dy fu.laʁ\
The verdict
“jeu du foulard” 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) — Pratique consistant à se serrer ou se faire serrer la gorge par un lien ou les mains pour bloquer la respiration et induire l’hallucination.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jeu du foulard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒø dy fu.laʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jeu du foulard” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jeu du foulard is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒø dy fu.laʁ\. 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: "Pratique consistant à se serrer ou se faire serrer la gorge par un lien ou les mains pour bloquer la respiration et induire l’hallucination.".
No misspelling variants are generated for jeu du foulard 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 du foulard, spelled J-E-U- -D-U- -F-O-U-L-A-R-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pratique consistant à se serrer ou se faire serrer la gorge par un lien ou les mains pour bloquer la respiration et induire l’hallucination.
Synonyms
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Using “jeu du foulard”
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- The one correct French spelling is J-E-U- -D-U- -F-O-U-L-A-R-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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