tallone di Achille
\tal.ˈlɔ.ne di a.kil.ˈle\
The verdict
“tallone di Achille” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Talon d’Achille, point faible pouvant être fatal à une personne, ou à une quelconque entreprise, en dépit d’une grande solidité générale.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tallone di Achille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tal.ˈlɔ.ne di a.kil.ˈle\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tallone di Achille” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tallone di Achille is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tal.ˈlɔ.ne di a.kil.ˈle\. 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: "Talon d’Achille, point faible pouvant être fatal à une personne, ou à une quelconque entreprise, en dépit d’une grande solidité générale.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tallone di Achille 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 tallone di Achille, spelled T-A-L-L-O-N-E- -D-I- -A-C-H-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Talon d’Achille, point faible pouvant être fatal à une personne, ou à une quelconque entreprise, en dépit d’une grande solidité générale.
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 “tallone di Achille”
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- The one correct French spelling is T-A-L-L-O-N-E- -D-I- -A-C-H-I-L-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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