white as a ghost
The verdict
“white as a ghost” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Être blanc de peur, blanc comme un linge, avoir une peur bleue.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | white as a ghost |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “white as a ghost” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for white as a ghost is 16 letters long, classified as an adjective. 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: "Être blanc de peur, blanc comme un linge, avoir une peur bleue.".
No misspelling variants are generated for white as a ghost 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 white as a ghost, spelled W-H-I-T-E- -A-S- -A- -G-H-O-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Être blanc de peur, blanc comme un linge, avoir une peur bleue.
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 “white as a ghost”
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- The one correct French spelling is W-H-I-T-E- -A-S- -A- -G-H-O-S-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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