moment de vérité
\mɔ.mɑ̃ də ve.ʁi.te\
The verdict
“moment de vérité” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Instant où un choix doit être fait ou une révélation doit apparaître. Moment décisif.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moment de vérité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.mɑ̃ də ve.ʁi.te\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “moment de vérité” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for moment de vérité is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔ.mɑ̃ də ve.ʁi.te\. 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: "Instant où un choix doit être fait ou une révélation doit apparaître. Moment décisif.".
No misspelling variants are generated for moment de vérité 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 moment de vérité, spelled M-O-M-E-N-T- -D-E- -V-É-R-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instant où un choix doit être fait ou une révélation doit apparaître. Moment décisif.
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-O-M-E-N-T- -D-E- -V-É-R-I-T-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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