prince des ténèbres

/\pʁɛ̃s de te.nɛbʁ\/ noun

Letters

19 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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prince des ténèbres is aFrenchnoun. It means: Le diable. Pronounced \pʁɛ̃s de te.nɛbʁ\.

Key facts for prince des ténèbres
PropertyValue
Headwordprince des ténèbres
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pʁɛ̃s de te.nɛbʁ\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

prince des ténèbres is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for prince des ténèbres is 19 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɛ̃s de te.nɛbʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for prince des ténèbres in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 prince des ténèbres, spelled P-R-I-N-C-E- -D-E-S- -T-É-N-È-B-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Le diable.
  2. 2
    Personne qui fait du mal.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prince des ténèbres"?
"prince des ténèbres" is spelled P-R-I-N-C-E- -D-E-S- -T-É-N-È-B-R-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɛ̃s de te.nɛbʁ\.
What does "prince des ténèbres" mean?
As a noun, "prince des ténèbres" means: Le diable.
How do you pronounce "prince des ténèbres"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "prince des ténèbres" is \pʁɛ̃s de te.nɛbʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "prince des ténèbres" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.