sourire du plombier
\su.ʁiʁ dy plɔ̃.bje\
The verdict
“sourire du plombier” 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
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Naissance de la raie des fesses visible sur une personne habillée lorsqu’elle se penche en avant ou se tient accroupie, ou porte un vêtement ou un sous-vêtement taille basse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sourire du plombier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \su.ʁiʁ dy plɔ̃.bje\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sourire du plombier” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sourire du plombier is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \su.ʁiʁ dy plɔ̃.bje\. 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: "Naissance de la raie des fesses visible sur une personne habillée lorsqu’elle se penche en avant ou se tient accroupie, ou porte un vêtement ou un sous-vêtement taille basse.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sourire du plombier 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 sourire du plombier, spelled S-O-U-R-I-R-E- -D-U- -P-L-O-M-B-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Naissance de la raie des fesses visible sur une personne habillée lorsqu’elle se penche en avant ou se tient accroupie, ou porte un vêtement ou un sous-vêtement taille basse.
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- The one correct French spelling is S-O-U-R-I-R-E- -D-U- -P-L-O-M-B-I-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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