mordre la main nourricière
\mɔʁ.dʁə la mɛ̃ nu.ʁi.sjɛʁ\
The verdict
“mordre la main nourricière” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 26
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Léser une personne bienveillante
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mordre la main nourricière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɔʁ.dʁə la mɛ̃ nu.ʁi.sjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 26 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mordre la main nourricière” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mordre la main nourricière is 26 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔʁ.dʁə la mɛ̃ nu.ʁi.sjɛʁ\. 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: "Léser une personne bienveillante".
No misspelling variants are generated for mordre la main nourricière 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 mordre la main nourricière, spelled M-O-R-D-R-E- -L-A- -M-A-I-N- -N-O-U-R-R-I-C-I-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Léser une personne bienveillante
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- The one correct French spelling is M-O-R-D-R-E- -L-A- -M-A-I-N- -N-O-U-R-R-I-C-I-È-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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