sortir du placard
The verdict
“sortir du placard” 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
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Annoncer publiquement son orientation sexuelle (homosexualité, bisexualité, asexualité etc.), sa transidentité et/ou sa non-binarité.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sortir du placard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɔʁ.tiʁ dy pla.kaʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sortir du placard” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sortir du placard is 17 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɔʁ.tiʁ dy pla.kaʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for sortir du placard 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 sortir du placard, spelled S-O-R-T-I-R- -D-U- -P-L-A-C-A-R-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Annoncer publiquement son orientation sexuelle (homosexualité, bisexualité, asexualité etc.), sa transidentité et/ou sa non-binarité.
- 2Annoncer, déclarer une pensée, un fait jusque là gardé secret, in petto.
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Using “sortir du placard”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-O-R-T-I-R- -D-U- -P-L-A-C-A-R-D — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sɔʁ.tiʁ dy pla.kaʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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