main chaude
\mɛ̃ ʃod\
The verdict
“main chaude” 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
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Jeu où une personne, courbée sur les genoux d’une autre et les yeux fermés, reçoit des coups dans une de ses mains, qu’elle tend derrière elle, et doit deviner qui l’a touchée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | main chaude |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛ̃ ʃod\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “main chaude” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for main chaude is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛ̃ ʃod\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for main chaude 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 main chaude, spelled M-A-I-N- -C-H-A-U-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Jeu où une personne, courbée sur les genoux d’une autre et les yeux fermés, reçoit des coups dans une de ses mains, qu’elle tend derrière elle, et doit deviner qui l’a touchée.
- 2Moufle ou gant isolant protégeant la main en cas de contact avec une surface brûlante.
This word in other languages
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Using “main chaude”
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- The one correct French spelling is M-A-I-N- -C-H-A-U-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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