acte de décès

/\akt də de.sɛ\/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

acte de décès is aFrenchnoun. It means: Acte qui constate la mort d’une personne. Pronounced \akt də de.sɛ\.

Key facts for acte de décès
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Headwordacte de décès
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\akt də de.sɛ\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

acte de décès is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for acte de décès is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \akt də de.sɛ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for acte de décès 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 acte de décès, spelled A-C-T-E- -D-E- -D-É-C-È-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Acte qui constate la mort d’une personne.
  2. 2
    Action qui provoque la fin de quelque chose.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "acte de décès"?
"acte de décès" is spelled A-C-T-E- -D-E- -D-É-C-È-S. The IPA pronunciation is \akt də de.sɛ\.
What does "acte de décès" mean?
As a noun, "acte de décès" means: Acte qui constate la mort d’une personne.
How do you pronounce "acte de décès"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "acte de décès" is \akt də de.sɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "acte de décès" come from?
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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.