panne de courant

//pan də ku.ʁɑ̃// phrase

The verdict

“panne de courant” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency Spanish
16
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Apagón.

Key facts for panne de courant
PropertyValue
Headwordpanne de courant
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA/pan də ku.ʁɑ̃/
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “panne de courant” sits in Spanish frequency

panne de courant falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Spanish words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for panne de courant is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pan də ku.ʁɑ̃/. 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: "Apagón.".

No misspelling variants are generated for panne de courant in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish 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 Spanish form is panne de courant, spelled P-A-N-N-E- -D-E- -C-O-U-R-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Apagón.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "panne de courant"?
"panne de courant" is spelled P-A-N-N-E- -D-E- -C-O-U-R-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is /pan də ku.ʁɑ̃/.
What does "panne de courant" mean?
As a phrase, "panne de courant" means: Apagón.
How do you pronounce "panne de courant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "panne de courant" is /pan də ku.ʁɑ̃/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "panne de courant" come from?
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Using “panne de courant”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Spanish spelling is P-A-N-N-E- -D-E- -C-O-U-R-A-N-T — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as /pan də ku.ʁɑ̃/ (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.