question de vie ou de mort
The verdict
“question de vie ou 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
- 26
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Chose qui permet la survie ou cause la mort.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | question de vie ou de mort |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɛs.tjɔ̃ də vi u də mɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 26 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “question de vie ou de mort” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for question de vie ou de mort is 26 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɛs.tjɔ̃ də vi u də mɔʁ\. 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 misspelling variants are generated for question de vie ou 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 question de vie ou de mort, spelled Q-U-E-S-T-I-O-N- -D-E- -V-I-E- -O-U- -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
- 1Chose qui permet la survie ou cause la mort.
- 2Chose de très grande importance.
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- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-E-S-T-I-O-N- -D-E- -V-I-E- -O-U- -D-E- -M-O-R-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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