mon Dieu

/\mɔ̃ djø\/ intj

Letters

8 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

mon Dieu is anFrenchintj. It means: Expression qui exprime la surprise ou l’émotion. Pronounced \mɔ̃ djø\.

Key facts for mon Dieu
PropertyValue
Headwordmon Dieu
LanguageFrench
Part of speechIntj
IPA\mɔ̃ djø\
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

mon Dieu 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 mon Dieu is 8 letters long, classified as anintj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔ̃ djø\. 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: "Expression qui exprime la surprise ou l’émotion.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for mon Dieu 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 mon Dieu, spelled M-O-N- -D-I-E-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Expression qui exprime la surprise ou l’émotion.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mon Dieu"?
"mon Dieu" is spelled M-O-N- -D-I-E-U. The IPA pronunciation is \mɔ̃ djø\.
What does "mon Dieu" mean?
As an intj, "mon Dieu" means: Expression qui exprime la surprise ou l’émotion.
How do you pronounce "mon Dieu"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mon Dieu" is \mɔ̃ djø\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mon Dieu" 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.