sauce hollandaise
The verdict
“sauce hollandaise” 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
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Émulsion chaude de jus de citron et de beurre, quelquefois clarifié, dans laquelle le jaune d’œuf sert d’agent émulsifiant.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sauce hollandaise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sos ɔ.lɑ̃.dɛz\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sauce hollandaise” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sauce hollandaise is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sos ɔ.lɑ̃.dɛz\. 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: "Émulsion chaude de jus de citron et de beurre, quelquefois clarifié, dans laquelle le jaune d’œuf sert d’agent émulsifiant.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sauce hollandaise 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 sauce hollandaise, spelled S-A-U-C-E- -H-O-L-L-A-N-D-A-I-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Émulsion chaude de jus de citron et de beurre, quelquefois clarifié, dans laquelle le jaune d’œuf sert d’agent émulsifiant.
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- The one correct French spelling is S-A-U-C-E- -H-O-L-L-A-N-D-A-I-S-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sos ɔ.lɑ̃.dɛz\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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