vin de paille
\vɛ̃ də paj\
The verdict
“vin de paille” 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Vin fait avec du raisin qu’on a laissé quelque temps sur la paille après la récolte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vin de paille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛ̃ də paj\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “vin de paille” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for vin de paille is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vɛ̃ də paj\. 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: "Vin fait avec du raisin qu’on a laissé quelque temps sur la paille après la récolte.".
No misspelling variants are generated for vin de paille 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 vin de paille, spelled V-I-N- -D-E- -P-A-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vin fait avec du raisin qu’on a laissé quelque temps sur la paille après la récolte.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is V-I-N- -D-E- -P-A-I-L-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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