caractère sexuel secondaire
The verdict
“caractère sexuel secondaire” 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
- 27
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Caractéristique physique qui différencie les mâles des femelles d’une espèce, sans être directement impliquée dans la reproduction, à la différence des caractères sexuels primaires.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caractère sexuel secondaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁak.tɛʁ sɛk.sɥɛl sə.gɔ̃.dɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 27 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “caractère sexuel secondaire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for caractère sexuel secondaire is 27 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.ʁak.tɛʁ sɛk.sɥɛl sə.gɔ̃.dɛʁ\. 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: "Caractéristique physique qui différencie les mâles des femelles d’une espèce, sans être directement impliquée dans la reproduction, à la différence des caractères sexuels primaires.".
No misspelling variants are generated for caractère sexuel secondaire 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 caractère sexuel secondaire, spelled C-A-R-A-C-T-È-R-E- -S-E-X-U-E-L- -S-E-C-O-N-D-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Caractéristique physique qui différencie les mâles des femelles d’une espèce, sans être directement impliquée dans la reproduction, à la différence des caractères sexuels primaires.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-R-A-C-T-È-R-E- -S-E-X-U-E-L- -S-E-C-O-N-D-A-I-R-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ka.ʁak.tɛʁ sɛk.sɥɛl sə.gɔ̃.dɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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