candidature spontanée

/\kɑ̃.di.da.tyʁ spɔ̃.ta.ne\/ noun

The verdict

“candidature spontanée” 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
21
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Candidature à un poste qui ne correspond pas à une offre publiée.

Key facts for candidature spontanée
PropertyValue
Headwordcandidature spontanée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɑ̃.di.da.tyʁ spɔ̃.ta.ne\
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “candidature spontanée” sits in French frequency

candidature spontanée 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 candidature spontanée is 21 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɑ̃.di.da.tyʁ spɔ̃.ta.ne\. 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: "Candidature à un poste qui ne correspond pas à une offre publiée.".

No misspelling variants are generated for candidature spontanée 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 candidature spontanée, spelled C-A-N-D-I-D-A-T-U-R-E- -S-P-O-N-T-A-N-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Candidature à un poste qui ne correspond pas à une offre publiée.

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How do you spell "candidature spontanée"?
"candidature spontanée" is spelled C-A-N-D-I-D-A-T-U-R-E- -S-P-O-N-T-A-N-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɑ̃.di.da.tyʁ spɔ̃.ta.ne\.
What does "candidature spontanée" mean?
As a noun, "candidature spontanée" means: Candidature à un poste qui ne correspond pas à une offre publiée.
How do you pronounce "candidature spontanée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "candidature spontanée" is \kɑ̃.di.da.tyʁ spɔ̃.ta.ne\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “candidature spontanée”

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

  • The one correct French spelling is C-A-N-D-I-D-A-T-U-R-E- -S-P-O-N-T-A-N-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \kɑ̃.di.da.tyʁ spɔ̃.ta.ne\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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