sacré nom de Dieu

/\sa.kʁe nɔ̃ də djø\/ intj

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.

Key facts for sacré nom de Dieu
PropertyValue
Headwordsacré nom de Dieu
LanguageFrench
Part of speechInterjection
IPA\sa.kʁe nɔ̃ də djø\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “sacré nom de Dieu” sits in French frequency

sacré nom de Dieu falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Juron pour exprimer la colère, la surprise, le dépit, etc.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sacré nom de Dieu"?
"sacré nom de Dieu" is spelled S-A-C-R-É- -N-O-M- -D-E- -D-I-E-U. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.kʁe nɔ̃ də djø\.
What does "sacré nom de Dieu" mean?
As an interjection, "sacré nom de Dieu" means: Juron pour exprimer la colère, la surprise, le dépit, etc.
How do you pronounce "sacré nom de Dieu"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sacré nom de Dieu" is \sa.kʁe nɔ̃ də djø\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sacré nom de Dieu" come from?
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Using “sacré nom de Dieu”

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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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.