allocations familiales
The verdict
“allocations familiales” 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
- 22
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Pluriel de allocation familiale, utilisé couramment pour désigner cette source de revenus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | allocations familiales |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.lɔ.ka.sjɔ̃ fa.mi.ljal\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “allocations familiales” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for allocations familiales is 22 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.lɔ.ka.sjɔ̃ fa.mi.ljal\. 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 allocations familiales 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 allocations familiales, spelled A-L-L-O-C-A-T-I-O-N-S- -F-A-M-I-L-I-A-L-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de allocation familiale, utilisé couramment pour désigner cette source de revenus.
- 2Caisse qui verse ces revenus complémentaires.
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- The one correct French spelling is A-L-L-O-C-A-T-I-O-N-S- -F-A-M-I-L-I-A-L-E-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.lɔ.ka.sjɔ̃ fa.mi.ljal\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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