moutarde de Dijon
\mu.taʁd də di.ʒɔ̃\
The verdict
“moutarde de Dijon” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Moutarde forte dont la méthode de fabrication a été élaborée dans la ville de Dijon en France.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moutarde de Dijon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mu.taʁd də di.ʒɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “moutarde de Dijon” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for moutarde de Dijon is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mu.taʁd də di.ʒɔ̃\. 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: "Moutarde forte dont la méthode de fabrication a été élaborée dans la ville de Dijon en France.".
No misspelling variants are generated for moutarde de Dijon 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 moutarde de Dijon, spelled M-O-U-T-A-R-D-E- -D-E- -D-I-J-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Moutarde forte dont la méthode de fabrication a été élaborée dans la ville de Dijon en France.
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