année scolaire
\a.ne skɔ.lɛʁ\
The verdict
“année scolaire” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Année démarrant à la rentrée des classes. Dans l'hémisphère nord, du mois de septembre jusqu'au mois de juin, mais certains pays d'Asie la font commencer en avril. Dans l'hémisphère sud, elle comme...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | année scolaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ne skɔ.lɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “année scolaire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for année scolaire is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ne skɔ.lɛʁ\. 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: "Année démarrant à la rentrée des classes. Dans l'hémisphère nord, du mois de septembre jusqu'au mois de juin, mais certains pays d'Asie la font commencer en avril. Dans l'hémisphère sud, elle comme...".
No misspelling variants are generated for année scolaire 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 année scolaire, spelled A-N-N-É-E- -S-C-O-L-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Année démarrant à la rentrée des classes. Dans l'hémisphère nord, du mois de septembre jusqu'au mois de juin, mais certains pays d'Asie la font commencer en avril. Dans l'hémisphère sud, elle commence plus souvent en janvier-février.
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- The one correct French spelling is A-N-N-É-E- -S-C-O-L-A-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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