le diable se cache dans les détails
The verdict
“le diable se cache dans les détails” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 35
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: La difficulté n’est pas apparente.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | le diable se cache dans les détails |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \lə djɑbl sə kaʃ dɑ̃ le de.taj\ |
| Letters | 35 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “le diable se cache dans les détails” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for le diable se cache dans les détails is 35 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lə djɑbl sə kaʃ dɑ̃ le de.taj\. 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: "La difficulté n’est pas apparente.".
No misspelling variants are generated for le diable se cache dans les détails 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 le diable se cache dans les détails, spelled L-E- -D-I-A-B-L-E- -S-E- -C-A-C-H-E- -D-A-N-S- -L-E-S- -D-É-T-A-I-L-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1La difficulté n’est pas apparente.
This word in other languages
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- The one correct French spelling is L-E- -D-I-A-B-L-E- -S-E- -C-A-C-H-E- -D-A-N-S- -L-E-S- -D-É-T-A-I-L-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \lə djɑbl sə kaʃ dɑ̃ le de.taj\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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