tomber dans le panneau
\tɔ̃.be dɑ̃ lə pa.no\
The verdict
“tomber dans le panneau” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Faire preuve d’une trop grande crédulité ou ne pas se rendre compte que l’on se fait piéger.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tomber dans le panneau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɔ̃.be dɑ̃ lə pa.no\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tomber dans le panneau” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tomber dans le panneau is 22 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɔ̃.be dɑ̃ lə pa.no\. 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: "Faire preuve d’une trop grande crédulité ou ne pas se rendre compte que l’on se fait piéger.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tomber dans le panneau 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 tomber dans le panneau, spelled T-O-M-B-E-R- -D-A-N-S- -L-E- -P-A-N-N-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Faire preuve d’une trop grande crédulité ou ne pas se rendre compte que l’on se fait piéger.
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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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- The one correct French spelling is T-O-M-B-E-R- -D-A-N-S- -L-E- -P-A-N-N-E-A-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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