que le diable m’emporte si
The verdict
“que le diable m’emporte si” 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: Locution employée, sous forme de serment, pour affirmer ou nier avec plus d’énergie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | que le diable m’emporte si |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kə lə djɑbl m‿ɑ̃.pɔʁt si\ |
| Letters | 26 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “que le diable m’emporte si” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for que le diable m’emporte si is 26 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kə lə djɑbl m‿ɑ̃.pɔʁt si\. 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: "Locution employée, sous forme de serment, pour affirmer ou nier avec plus d’énergie.".
No misspelling variants are generated for que le diable m’emporte si 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 que le diable m’emporte si, spelled Q-U-E- -L-E- -D-I-A-B-L-E- -M-’-E-M-P-O-R-T-E- -S-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Locution employée, sous forme de serment, pour affirmer ou nier avec plus d’énergie.
Synonyms
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Using “que le diable m’emporte si”
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- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-E- -L-E- -D-I-A-B-L-E- -M-’-E-M-P-O-R-T-E- -S-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kə lə djɑbl m‿ɑ̃.pɔʁt si\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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