que le diable te confonde
The verdict
“que le diable te confonde” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 25
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Se dit pour exprimer sa colère contre quelqu’un.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | que le diable te confonde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \kə lə djɑ.blə tə kɔ̃.fɔ̃d\ |
| Letters | 25 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “que le diable te confonde” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for que le diable te confonde is 25 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kə lə djɑ.blə tə kɔ̃.fɔ̃d\. 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: "Se dit pour exprimer sa colère contre quelqu’un.".
No misspelling variants are generated for que le diable te confonde 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 te confonde, spelled Q-U-E- -L-E- -D-I-A-B-L-E- -T-E- -C-O-N-F-O-N-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se dit pour exprimer sa colère contre quelqu’un.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “que le diable te confonde”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-E- -L-E- -D-I-A-B-L-E- -T-E- -C-O-N-F-O-N-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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