vendre son âme au diable

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for vendre son âme au diable is 24 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vɑ̃.dʁə sɔ̃.n‿ɑ.m‿o djɑbl\. 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: "Sacrifier ses principes en vue d’obtenir quelque chose en retour.".

No misspelling variants are generated for vendre son âme au diable 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 vendre son âme au diable, spelled V-E-N-D-R-E- -S-O-N- -Â-M-E- -A-U- -D-I-A-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.