ouvrir la boîte de Pandore
The verdict
“ouvrir la boîte de Pandore” 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
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Déclencher imprudemment une série d’événements nocifs inarrêtables ou presque.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ouvrir la boîte de Pandore |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \u.vʁiʁ la bwat də pɑ̃.dɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 26 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ouvrir la boîte de Pandore” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ouvrir la boîte de Pandore is 26 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \u.vʁiʁ la bwat də pɑ̃.dɔʁ\. 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: "Déclencher imprudemment une série d’événements nocifs inarrêtables ou presque.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ouvrir la boîte de Pandore 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 ouvrir la boîte de Pandore, spelled O-U-V-R-I-R- -L-A- -B-O-Î-T-E- -D-E- -P-A-N-D-O-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Déclencher imprudemment une série d’événements nocifs inarrêtables ou presque.
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- The one correct French spelling is O-U-V-R-I-R- -L-A- -B-O-Î-T-E- -D-E- -P-A-N-D-O-R-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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