trente-six bêtes
\tʁɑ̃t.sis bɛt\
The verdict
“trente-six bêtes” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Jeu consistant à deviner à quelle bête ou quel génie correspond l'histoire ou la description donnée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trente-six bêtes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁɑ̃t.sis bɛt\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “trente-six bêtes” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for trente-six bêtes is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁɑ̃t.sis bɛt\. 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: "Jeu consistant à deviner à quelle bête ou quel génie correspond l'histoire ou la description donnée.".
No misspelling variants are generated for trente-six bêtes 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 trente-six bêtes, spelled T-R-E-N-T-E---S-I-X- -B-Ê-T-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Jeu consistant à deviner à quelle bête ou quel génie correspond l'histoire ou la description donnée.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is T-R-E-N-T-E---S-I-X- -B-Ê-T-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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