peine de mort
\pɛn də mɔʁ\
The verdict
“peine de mort” 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Peine capitale, châtiment qui consiste dans la suppression de la vie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peine de mort |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛn də mɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “peine de mort” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for peine de mort is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛn də mɔʁ\. 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: "Peine capitale, châtiment qui consiste dans la suppression de la vie.".
No misspelling variants are generated for peine de mort 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 peine de mort, spelled P-E-I-N-E- -D-E- -M-O-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Peine capitale, châtiment qui consiste dans la suppression de la vie.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-E-I-N-E- -D-E- -M-O-R-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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