loi du talion

/\lwa dy ta.ljɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

loi du talion is aFrenchnoun. It means: Loi selon laquelle la sentence est équivalente à l’offense. Elle est souvent représentée par l’expression « œil pour œil, dent pour dent ». Pronounced \lwa dy ta.ljɔ̃\.

Key facts for loi du talion
PropertyValue
Headwordloi du talion
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\lwa dy ta.ljɔ̃\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

loi du talion is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for loi du talion is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lwa dy ta.ljɔ̃\. 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: "Loi selon laquelle la sentence est équivalente à l’offense. Elle est souvent représentée par l’expression « œil pour œil, dent pour dent ».".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for loi du talion in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 loi du talion, spelled L-O-I- -D-U- -T-A-L-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Loi selon laquelle la sentence est équivalente à l’offense. Elle est souvent représentée par l’expression « œil pour œil, dent pour dent ».

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "loi du talion"?
"loi du talion" is spelled L-O-I- -D-U- -T-A-L-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \lwa dy ta.ljɔ̃\.
What does "loi du talion" mean?
As a noun, "loi du talion" means: Loi selon laquelle la sentence est équivalente à l’offense. Elle est souvent représentée par l’expression « œil pour œil, dent pour dent ».
How do you pronounce "loi du talion"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "loi du talion" is \lwa dy ta.ljɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "loi du talion" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.