rond des sorcières
\ʁɔ̃d de sɔʁ.sjɛʁ\
The verdict
“rond des sorcières” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Vaste cercle, sur un terrain, au pourtour duquel croissent des champignons.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rond des sorcières |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ̃d de sɔʁ.sjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rond des sorcières” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rond des sorcières is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɔ̃d de sɔʁ.sjɛʁ\. 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: "Vaste cercle, sur un terrain, au pourtour duquel croissent des champignons.".
No misspelling variants are generated for rond des sorcières 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 rond des sorcières, spelled R-O-N-D- -D-E-S- -S-O-R-C-I-È-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vaste cercle, sur un terrain, au pourtour duquel croissent des champignons.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is R-O-N-D- -D-E-S- -S-O-R-C-I-È-R-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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