vache folle

/\vaʃ fɔl\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

vache folle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Vache atteinte de l’encéphalopathie spongiforme bovine. Pronounced \vaʃ fɔl\.

Key facts for vache folle
PropertyValue
Headwordvache folle
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vaʃ fɔl\
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

vache folle is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for vache folle is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vaʃ fɔl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for vache folle 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 vache folle, spelled V-A-C-H-E- -F-O-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Vache atteinte de l’encéphalopathie spongiforme bovine.
  2. 2
    Encéphalopathie spongiforme bovine.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vache folle"?
"vache folle" is spelled V-A-C-H-E- -F-O-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \vaʃ fɔl\.
What does "vache folle" mean?
As a noun, "vache folle" means: Vache atteinte de l’encéphalopathie spongiforme bovine.
How do you pronounce "vache folle"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vache folle" is \vaʃ fɔl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vache folle" come from?
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Data Source: 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.