sur le bout du doigt
\syʁ lə bu dy dwa\
The verdict
“sur le bout du doigt” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Parfaitement, en parlant d’un sujet qu’on maîtrise.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sur le bout du doigt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \syʁ lə bu dy dwa\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sur le bout du doigt” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sur le bout du doigt is 20 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \syʁ lə bu dy dwa\. 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: "Parfaitement, en parlant d’un sujet qu’on maîtrise.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sur le bout du doigt, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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. The correct French form is sur le bout du doigt, spelled S-U-R- -L-E- -B-O-U-T- -D-U- -D-O-I-G-T.
Definition
- 1Parfaitement, en parlant d’un sujet qu’on maîtrise.
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 “sur le bout du doigt”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-U-R- -L-E- -B-O-U-T- -D-U- -D-O-I-G-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \syʁ lə bu dy dwa\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
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.