article défini

noun

The verdict

“article défini” 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

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Mot-outil permettant d’introduire un syntagme nominal et de montrer la définitude.

Key facts for article défini
PropertyValue
Headwordarticle défini
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “article défini” sits in French frequency

article défini falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for article défini is 14 letters long, classified as a noun. 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: "Mot-outil permettant d’introduire un syntagme nominal et de montrer la définitude.".

No misspelling variants are generated for article défini 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 article défini, spelled A-R-T-I-C-L-E- -D-É-F-I-N-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mot-outil permettant d’introduire un syntagme nominal et de montrer la définitude.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "article défini"?
"article défini" is spelled A-R-T-I-C-L-E- -D-É-F-I-N-I.
What does "article défini" mean?
As a noun, "article défini" means: Mot-outil permettant d’introduire un syntagme nominal et de montrer la définitude.
What language does "article défini" come from?
"article défini" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “article défini”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is A-R-T-I-C-L-E- -D-É-F-I-N-I — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.