rideau de douche
\ʁi.do də duʃ\
The verdict
“rideau de douche” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Rideau qui lors d’une douche sert à empêcher les projections d’eau alentour, et s’il n’est pas transparent, à préserver l’intimité.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rideau de douche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.do də duʃ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rideau de douche” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
rideau de douche is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁi.do də duʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rideau qui lors d’une douche sert à empêcher les projections d’eau alentour, et s’il n’est pas transparent, à préserver l’intimité.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rideau de douche, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is rideau de douche, spelled R-I-D-E-A-U- -D-E- -D-O-U-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Rideau qui lors d’une douche sert à empêcher les projections d’eau alentour, et s’il n’est pas transparent, à préserver l’intimité.
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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 “rideau de douche”
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- The one correct French spelling is R-I-D-E-A-U- -D-E- -D-O-U-C-H-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁi.do də duʃ\ (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.