aide sociale
\ɛd sɔ.sjal\
The verdict
“aide sociale” 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
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dispositif public fournissant des prestations financières, des aides en nature ou des services aux personnes dont les ressources ou la situation ne leur permettent pas de subvenir à leurs besoins e...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aide sociale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛd sɔ.sjal\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aide sociale” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for aide sociale is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛd sɔ.sjal\. 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: "Dispositif public fournissant des prestations financières, des aides en nature ou des services aux personnes dont les ressources ou la situation ne leur permettent pas de subvenir à leurs besoins e...".
No misspelling variants are generated for aide sociale 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 aide sociale, spelled A-I-D-E- -S-O-C-I-A-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dispositif public fournissant des prestations financières, des aides en nature ou des services aux personnes dont les ressources ou la situation ne leur permettent pas de subvenir à leurs besoins essentiels.
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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 “aide sociale”
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- The one correct French spelling is A-I-D-E- -S-O-C-I-A-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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