souffle du diable
\sufl dy djabl\
The verdict
“souffle du diable” 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) — Composé chimique à base de scopolamine et d’atropine, qui, inhalé sous forme de poudre, provoque des pertes de volonté et de mémoire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | souffle du diable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sufl dy djabl\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “souffle du diable” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for souffle du diable is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sufl dy djabl\. 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: "Composé chimique à base de scopolamine et d’atropine, qui, inhalé sous forme de poudre, provoque des pertes de volonté et de mémoire.".
No misspelling variants are generated for souffle du diable 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 souffle du diable, spelled S-O-U-F-F-L-E- -D-U- -D-I-A-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Composé chimique à base de scopolamine et d’atropine, qui, inhalé sous forme de poudre, provoque des pertes de volonté et de mémoire.
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