near death
\ˈnɪə ˈdɛθ\
The verdict
“near death” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Sur le point de mourir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | near death |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ˈnɪə ˈdɛθ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “near death” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for near death is 10 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈnɪə ˈdɛθ\. 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: "Sur le point de mourir.".
No misspelling variants are generated for near death 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 near death, spelled N-E-A-R- -D-E-A-T-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sur le point de mourir.
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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Using “near death”
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- The one correct French spelling is N-E-A-R- -D-E-A-T-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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