cadre de réserve
The verdict
“cadre de réserve” 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: Section de l’état-major général de l’armée comprenant les officiers généraux qui, à cause de leur âge, ne sont plus en activité, mais qui peuvent être encore employés activement en temps de guerre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cadre de réserve |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kadʁ də ʁe.zɛʁv\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cadre de réserve” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cadre de réserve is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kadʁ də ʁe.zɛʁv\. 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: "Section de l’état-major général de l’armée comprenant les officiers généraux qui, à cause de leur âge, ne sont plus en activité, mais qui peuvent être encore employés activement en temps de guerre.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cadre de réserve 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 cadre de réserve, spelled C-A-D-R-E- -D-E- -R-É-S-E-R-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Section de l’état-major général de l’armée comprenant les officiers généraux qui, à cause de leur âge, ne sont plus en activité, mais qui peuvent être encore employés activement en temps de guerre.
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Using “cadre de réserve”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-D-R-E- -D-E- -R-É-S-E-R-V-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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