main de Dieu
The verdict
“main de Dieu” 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
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Expression anthropomorphique pour désigner Dieu, sa manifestation, son action, sa puissance.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | main de Dieu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛ̃ də djø\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “main de Dieu” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for main de Dieu is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛ̃ də djø\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for main de Dieu 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 de Dieu, spelled M-A-I-N- -D-E- -D-I-E-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Expression anthropomorphique pour désigner Dieu, sa manifestation, son action, sa puissance.
- 2But marqué et toute action jouée avec la main, en totale violation des règles.
- 3Main de Fatima.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-A-I-N- -D-E- -D-I-E-U — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mɛ̃ də djø\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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