avocat du ministère public
\a.vɔ.kɑ dy mi.nis.tɛʁ py.blik\
The verdict
“avocat du ministère public” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 26
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Avocat chargé de la poursuite, au nom de l'État, dans les causes pénales.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avocat-du-ministere-publ · avocat du ministère public · French
avocat du ministère public · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 26 letters
- VOW-10 10 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avocat du ministère public |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.vɔ.kɑ dy mi.nis.tɛʁ py.blik\ |
| Letters | 26 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
avocat du ministère public is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.vɔ.kɑ dy mi.nis.tɛʁ py.blik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Avocat chargé de la poursuite, au nom de l'État, dans les causes pénales.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for avocat du ministère public, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is avocat du ministère public, spelled A-V-O-C-A-T- -D-U- -M-I-N-I-S-T-È-R-E- -P-U-B-L-I-C.
Definition
- 1Avocat chargé de la poursuite, au nom de l'État, dans les causes pénales.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how avocat du ministère public appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le 31 janvier 1857, Flaubert comparait devant la 6e chambre du tribunal correctionnel de Paris pour avoir fait publier Madame Bovary dans La Revue de Paris. […] Ernest Pinard, l’avocat du ministère public, met en cause « des expressions, des images, des tableaux que le bon goût réprouve et qui sont de nature à porter atteinte à de légitimes et honorables…
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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.