vérité de La Palisse
\ve.ʁi.te də la pa.lis\
The verdict
“vérité de La Palisse” 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
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Lapalissade
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vérité de La Palisse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ve.ʁi.te də la pa.lis\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “vérité de La Palisse” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for vérité de La Palisse is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ve.ʁi.te də la pa.lis\. 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: "Lapalissade".
vérité de La Palisse doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is vérité de La Palisse, spelled V-É-R-I-T-É- -D-E- -L-A- -P-A-L-I-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Lapalissade
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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Using “vérité de La Palisse”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is V-É-R-I-T-É- -D-E- -L-A- -P-A-L-I-S-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ve.ʁi.te də la pa.lis\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.