bulletin de paie

/\byl.tɛ̃ də pɛ\/ noun

The verdict

“bulletin de paie” 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
16
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Document indiquant le salaire d’un employé, ainsi que détail des taxes et des assurances prélevées sur son salaire.

Key facts for bulletin de paie
PropertyValue
Headwordbulletin de paie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\byl.tɛ̃ də pɛ\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “bulletin de paie” sits in French frequency

bulletin de paie 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 bulletin de paie is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \byl.tɛ̃ də pɛ\. 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: "Document indiquant le salaire d’un employé, ainsi que détail des taxes et des assurances prélevées sur son salaire.".

No misspelling variants are generated for bulletin de paie 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 bulletin de paie, spelled B-U-L-L-E-T-I-N- -D-E- -P-A-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Document indiquant le salaire d’un employé, ainsi que détail des taxes et des assurances prélevées sur son salaire.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bulletin de paie"?
"bulletin de paie" is spelled B-U-L-L-E-T-I-N- -D-E- -P-A-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \byl.tɛ̃ də pɛ\.
What does "bulletin de paie" mean?
As a noun, "bulletin de paie" means: Document indiquant le salaire d’un employé, ainsi que détail des taxes et des assurances prélevées sur son salaire.
How do you pronounce "bulletin de paie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bulletin de paie" is \byl.tɛ̃ də pɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bulletin de paie" come from?
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Using “bulletin de paie”

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

  • The one correct French spelling is B-U-L-L-E-T-I-N- -D-E- -P-A-I-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \byl.tɛ̃ də pɛ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.