lapsus révélateur
\lap.sys ʁe.ve.la.tœʁ\
The verdict
“lapsus révélateur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Lapsus trahissant la véritable pensée de celui qui le commet.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lapsus révélateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lap.sys ʁe.ve.la.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lapsus révélateur” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
lapsus révélateur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \lap.sys ʁe.ve.la.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lapsus trahissant la véritable pensée de celui qui le commet.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lapsus révélateur, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is lapsus révélateur, spelled L-A-P-S-U-S- -R-É-V-É-L-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Lapsus trahissant la véritable pensée de celui qui le commet.
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- The one correct French spelling is L-A-P-S-U-S- -R-É-V-É-L-A-T-E-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.