sacrifier sur l’autel de

/\sa.kʁi.fje syʁ l‿o.tɛl də\/ verb

The verdict

“sacrifier sur l’autel de” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
24
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Choisir à la place de ; renoncer à quelque chose pour.

Key facts for sacrifier sur l’autel de
PropertyValue
Headwordsacrifier sur l’autel de
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\sa.kʁi.fje syʁ l‿o.tɛl də\
Letters24
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “sacrifier sur l’autel de” sits in French frequency

sacrifier sur l’autel de 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 sacrifier sur l’autel de is 24 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sa.kʁi.fje syʁ l‿o.tɛl də\. 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: "Choisir à la place de ; renoncer à quelque chose pour.".

No misspelling variants are generated for sacrifier sur l’autel de 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 sacrifier sur l’autel de, spelled S-A-C-R-I-F-I-E-R- -S-U-R- -L-’-A-U-T-E-L- -D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Choisir à la place de ; renoncer à quelque chose pour.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sacrifier sur l’autel de"?
"sacrifier sur l’autel de" is spelled S-A-C-R-I-F-I-E-R- -S-U-R- -L-’-A-U-T-E-L- -D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.kʁi.fje syʁ l‿o.tɛl də\.
What does "sacrifier sur l’autel de" mean?
As a verb, "sacrifier sur l’autel de" means: Choisir à la place de ; renoncer à quelque chose pour.
How do you pronounce "sacrifier sur l’autel de"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sacrifier sur l’autel de" is \sa.kʁi.fje syʁ l‿o.tɛl də\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “sacrifier sur l’autel de”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is S-A-C-R-I-F-I-E-R- -S-U-R- -L-’-A-U-T-E-L- -D-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \sa.kʁi.fje syʁ l‿o.tɛl də\ (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.