zone de la mort
\zon də la mɔʁ\
The verdict
“zone de la mort” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Sommet situé au-dessus de 8000 mètres, où la raréfaction de l’oxygène met les personnes se trouvant à cette altitude en danger de mort.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zone de la mort |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \zon də la mɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “zone de la mort” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for zone de la mort is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \zon də la mɔʁ\. 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: "Sommet situé au-dessus de 8000 mètres, où la raréfaction de l’oxygène met les personnes se trouvant à cette altitude en danger de mort.".
No misspelling variants are generated for zone de la mort 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 zone de la mort, spelled Z-O-N-E- -D-E- -L-A- -M-O-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sommet situé au-dessus de 8000 mètres, où la raréfaction de l’oxygène met les personnes se trouvant à cette altitude en danger de mort.
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- The one correct French spelling is Z-O-N-E- -D-E- -L-A- -M-O-R-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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