agence de presse

/\a.ʒɑ̃s də pʁɛs\/ noun

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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tracked variants

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similar word pairs

agence de presse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Société qui emploie des correspondants locaux à écrire des dépêches sur les événements de l’endroit, pour les revendre à d’autres médias. Pronounced \a.ʒɑ̃s də pʁɛs\.

Key facts for agence de presse
PropertyValue
Headwordagence de presse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.ʒɑ̃s də pʁɛs\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

agence de presse 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 agence de presse is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ʒɑ̃s də pʁɛs\. 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: "Société qui emploie des correspondants locaux à écrire des dépêches sur les événements de l’endroit, pour les revendre à d’autres médias.".

No misspelling variants are generated for agence de presse 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 agence de presse, spelled A-G-E-N-C-E- -D-E- -P-R-E-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Société qui emploie des correspondants locaux à écrire des dépêches sur les événements de l’endroit, pour les revendre à d’autres médias.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "agence de presse"?
"agence de presse" is spelled A-G-E-N-C-E- -D-E- -P-R-E-S-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ʒɑ̃s də pʁɛs\.
What does "agence de presse" mean?
As a noun, "agence de presse" means: Société qui emploie des correspondants locaux à écrire des dépêches sur les événements de l’endroit, pour les revendre à d’autres médias.
How do you pronounce "agence de presse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "agence de presse" is \a.ʒɑ̃s də pʁɛs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "agence de presse" 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.