trou de mémoire
The verdict
“trou de mémoire” 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
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Incapacité temporaire à se rappeler une chose précise.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trou de mémoire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁu də me.mwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “trou de mémoire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for trou de mémoire is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁu də me.mwaʁ\. 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: "Incapacité temporaire à se rappeler une chose précise.".
No misspelling variants are generated for trou de mémoire 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 trou de mémoire, spelled T-R-O-U- -D-E- -M-É-M-O-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Incapacité temporaire à se rappeler une chose précise.
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-R-O-U- -D-E- -M-É-M-O-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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