sommeil paradoxal
\sɔ.mɛj pa.ʁa.dɔk.sal\
The verdict
“sommeil paradoxal” 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
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dernier stade d’un cycle du sommeil durant lequel se produisent les rêves.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sommeil paradoxal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.mɛj pa.ʁa.dɔk.sal\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sommeil paradoxal” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sommeil paradoxal is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɔ.mɛj pa.ʁa.dɔk.sal\. 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: "Dernier stade d’un cycle du sommeil durant lequel se produisent les rêves.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sommeil paradoxal in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sommeil paradoxal, spelled S-O-M-M-E-I-L- -P-A-R-A-D-O-X-A-L.
Definition
- 1Dernier stade d’un cycle du sommeil durant lequel se produisent les rêves.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “sommeil paradoxal”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-O-M-M-E-I-L- -P-A-R-A-D-O-X-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.