main de Fatima
\mɛ̃ də fa.ti.ma\
The verdict
“main de Fatima” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Amulette porte-bonheur en forme de main, pour les habitants du nord de l’Afrique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | main de Fatima |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛ̃ də fa.ti.ma\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “main de Fatima” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for main de Fatima is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛ̃ də fa.ti.ma\. 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 de Fatima 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 Fatima, spelled M-A-I-N- -D-E- -F-A-T-I-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Amulette porte-bonheur en forme de main, pour les habitants du nord de l’Afrique.
- 2Meuble représentant l’amulette du même nom dans les armoiries. Elle est généralement représentée doigts vers le chef. La position des deux doigts extérieurs est plus ou moins haute suivant les illustrateurs mais ne fait pas l’objet d'un blasonnement (indication). Les ongles sur les doigts du milieu peuvent être visibles mais on ne le blasonne que s’ils sont d’un autre émail. Ce meuble est surtout d’usage dans un contexte africain. Il est également appelé khamsa.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is M-A-I-N- -D-E- -F-A-T-I-M-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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