sacré tonnerre
The verdict
“sacré tonnerre” 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
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Juron.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sacré tonnerre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \sa.kʁe tɔ.nɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sacré tonnerre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sacré tonnerre is 14 letters long, classified as an interjection, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sa.kʁe tɔ.nɛʁ\. 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.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sacré tonnerre 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 tonnerre, spelled S-A-C-R-É- -T-O-N-N-E-R-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Juron.
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Using “sacré tonnerre”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-A-C-R-É- -T-O-N-N-E-R-R-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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