queue-de-cheval
\kø.də.ʃə.val\
The verdict
“queue-de-cheval” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Coiffure où les cheveux sont rassemblés assez haut à l’arrière du crâne, leur extrémité flottant comme la queue d’un cheval.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | queue-de-cheval |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kø.də.ʃə.val\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “queue-de-cheval” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for queue-de-cheval is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kø.də.ʃə.val\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for queue-de-cheval, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is queue-de-cheval, spelled Q-U-E-U-E---D-E---C-H-E-V-A-L.
Definition
- 1Coiffure où les cheveux sont rassemblés assez haut à l’arrière du crâne, leur extrémité flottant comme la queue d’un cheval.
- 2Volumineux faisceau de cordons nerveux, à l'extrémité inférieure de la moelle épinière, formé par les racines des trois derniers nerfs lombaires et celles des nerfs sacrés et coccygiens chez les humains et dont la racine est contenue dans le canal vertébral.
- 3Nom vulgaire des prêles. (Equisetum palustre sur Wikispecies ).
This word in other languages
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Using “queue-de-cheval”
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- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-E-U-E---D-E---C-H-E-V-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.