sacré nom de Dieu
The verdict
“sacré nom de Dieu” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an interjection — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Juron pour exprimer la colère, la surprise, le dépit, etc.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sacré nom de Dieu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \sa.kʁe nɔ̃ də djø\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sacré nom de Dieu” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sacré nom de Dieu is 17 letters long, classified as an interjection, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sa.kʁe nɔ̃ də djø\. 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: "Juron pour exprimer la colère, la surprise, le dépit, etc.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sacré nom de Dieu 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 sacré nom de Dieu, spelled S-A-C-R-É- -N-O-M- -D-E- -D-I-E-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Juron pour exprimer la colère, la surprise, le dépit, etc.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-A-C-R-É- -N-O-M- -D-E- -D-I-E-U — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sa.kʁe nɔ̃ də djø\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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