caractère simplifié
\ka.ʁak.tɛʁ sɛ̃.pli.fje\
The verdict
“caractère simplifié” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
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- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Glyphe simplifié de caractère chinois promulgué en 1956 et maintenant utilisé en République populaire de Chine, par opposition au caractère traditionnel.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caractère simplifié |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁak.tɛʁ sɛ̃.pli.fje\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “caractère simplifié” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for caractère simplifié is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.ʁak.tɛʁ sɛ̃.pli.fje\. 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: "Glyphe simplifié de caractère chinois promulgué en 1956 et maintenant utilisé en République populaire de Chine, par opposition au caractère traditionnel.".
No misspelling variants are generated for caractère simplifié 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 simplifié, spelled C-A-R-A-C-T-È-R-E- -S-I-M-P-L-I-F-I-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Glyphe simplifié de caractère chinois promulgué en 1956 et maintenant utilisé en République populaire de Chine, par opposition au caractère traditionnel.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-R-A-C-T-È-R-E- -S-I-M-P-L-I-F-I-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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