le diable se cache dans les détails

/\lə djɑbl sə kaʃ dɑ̃ le de.taj\/ phrase

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.

Key facts for le diable se cache dans les détails
PropertyValue
Headwordle diable se cache dans les détails
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPhrase
IPA\lə djɑbl sə kaʃ dɑ̃ le de.taj\
Letters35
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “le diable se cache dans les détails” sits in French frequency

le diable se cache dans les détails falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    La difficulté n’est pas apparente.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "le diable se cache dans les détails"?
"le diable se cache dans les détails" is 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. The IPA pronunciation is \lə djɑbl sə kaʃ dɑ̃ le de.taj\.
What does "le diable se cache dans les détails" mean?
As a phrase, "le diable se cache dans les détails" means: La difficulté n’est pas apparente.
How do you pronounce "le diable se cache dans les détails"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "le diable se cache dans les détails" is \lə djɑbl sə kaʃ dɑ̃ le de.taj\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “le diable se cache dans les détails”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • 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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Data Source: 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.

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