oint du Seigneur
The verdict
“oint du Seigneur” 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
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Celui qui est béni de Dieu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oint du Seigneur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wɛ̃ dy sɛ.ɲœʁ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “oint du Seigneur” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for oint du Seigneur is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \wɛ̃ dy sɛ.ɲœʁ\. 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: "Celui qui est béni de Dieu.".
No misspelling variants are generated for oint du Seigneur 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 oint du Seigneur, spelled O-I-N-T- -D-U- -S-E-I-G-N-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celui qui est béni de Dieu.
This word in other languages
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- The one correct French spelling is O-I-N-T- -D-U- -S-E-I-G-N-E-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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