révolution des Œillets
\ʁe.vɔ.ly.sjɔ̃ dɛ.z‿œ.jɛ\
The verdict
“révolution des Œillets” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Événements d’avril 1974 ayant entraîné la chute de la dictature salazariste qui était au pouvoir depuis 1933 au Portugal.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | révolution des Œillets |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.vɔ.ly.sjɔ̃ dɛ.z‿œ.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “révolution des Œillets” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for révolution des Œillets is 22 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁe.vɔ.ly.sjɔ̃ dɛ.z‿œ.jɛ\. 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: "Événements d’avril 1974 ayant entraîné la chute de la dictature salazariste qui était au pouvoir depuis 1933 au Portugal.".
No misspelling variants are generated for révolution des Œillets 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 révolution des Œillets, spelled R-É-V-O-L-U-T-I-O-N- -D-E-S- -Œ-I-L-L-E-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Événements d’avril 1974 ayant entraîné la chute de la dictature salazariste qui était au pouvoir depuis 1933 au Portugal.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is R-É-V-O-L-U-T-I-O-N- -D-E-S- -Œ-I-L-L-E-T-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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