que lo diable te patafiòle
The verdict
“que lo diable te patafiòle” 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
- 26
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Que le diable te patafiole, que le diable t’emporte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | que lo diable te patafiòle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \ke lu ˈdja.ple te pa.ta.ˈfjɔ.le\ |
| Letters | 26 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “que lo diable te patafiòle” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for que lo diable te patafiòle is 26 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ke lu ˈdja.ple te pa.ta.ˈfjɔ.le\. 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: "Que le diable te patafiole, que le diable t’emporte.".
No misspelling variants are generated for que lo diable te patafiòle 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 lo diable te patafiòle, spelled Q-U-E- -L-O- -D-I-A-B-L-E- -T-E- -P-A-T-A-F-I-Ò-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que le diable te patafiole, que le diable t’emporte.
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 lo diable te patafiòle”
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- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-E- -L-O- -D-I-A-B-L-E- -T-E- -P-A-T-A-F-I-Ò-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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