lame criblée de l’os ethmoïde
\lam kʁi.ble də l‿ɔ.s‿ɛt.mɔ.id\
The verdict
“lame criblée de l’os ethmoïde” 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
- 29
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Lame osseuse intégrée à l’ethmoïde permettant le passage du nerf olfactif vers les fosses nasales.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lame criblée de l’os ethmoïde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lam kʁi.ble də l‿ɔ.s‿ɛt.mɔ.id\ |
| Letters | 29 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lame criblée de l’os ethmoïde” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lame criblée de l’os ethmoïde is 29 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lam kʁi.ble də l‿ɔ.s‿ɛt.mɔ.id\. 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: "Lame osseuse intégrée à l’ethmoïde permettant le passage du nerf olfactif vers les fosses nasales.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lame criblée de l’os ethmoïde 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 lame criblée de l’os ethmoïde, spelled L-A-M-E- -C-R-I-B-L-É-E- -D-E- -L-’-O-S- -E-T-H-M-O-Ï-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lame osseuse intégrée à l’ethmoïde permettant le passage du nerf olfactif vers les fosses nasales.
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- The one correct French spelling is L-A-M-E- -C-R-I-B-L-É-E- -D-E- -L-’-O-S- -E-T-H-M-O-Ï-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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