toile d’araignée
\twal.d‿a.ʁɛ.ɲe\
The verdict
“toile d’araignée” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Réseau de fils de soie que sécrètent et fabriquent les araignées afin de constituer un filet dans lequel seront piégées les proies.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | toile d’araignée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \twal.d‿a.ʁɛ.ɲe\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “toile d’araignée” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
toile d’araignée is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \twal.d‿a.ʁɛ.ɲe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for toile d’araignée, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is toile d’araignée, spelled T-O-I-L-E- -D-’-A-R-A-I-G-N-É-E.
Definition
- 1Réseau de fils de soie que sécrètent et fabriquent les araignées afin de constituer un filet dans lequel seront piégées les proies.
- 2Filet pour emprisonner.
- 3Stratégie complexe et machiavélique élaborée pour manipuler quelqu’un et le faire tomber dans un piège, comme la proie immobilisée dans une toile d’araignée pour être dévorée.
This word in other languages
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 “toile d’araignée”
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- The one correct French spelling is T-O-I-L-E- -D-’-A-R-A-I-G-N-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.