rhume de cerveau
\ʁym də sɛʁ.vo\
The verdict
“rhume de cerveau” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Écoulement nasal et des éternuements répétés, et parfois une conjonctivite.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rhume de cerveau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁym də sɛʁ.vo\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rhume de cerveau” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rhume de cerveau is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁym də sɛʁ.vo\. 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: "Écoulement nasal et des éternuements répétés, et parfois une conjonctivite.".
rhume de cerveau doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is rhume de cerveau, spelled R-H-U-M-E- -D-E- -C-E-R-V-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Écoulement nasal et des éternuements répétés, et parfois une conjonctivite.
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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 “rhume de cerveau”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-H-U-M-E- -D-E- -C-E-R-V-E-A-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁym də sɛʁ.vo\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.