catastrophe écologique
The verdict
“catastrophe écologique” 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
- 22
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Résultat d'un évènement provoqué involontairement par l'être humain ou consécutif à une activité humaine et nuisant au milieu naturel, par suite de maladresse, de prise de risques exagérée ou de né...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | catastrophe écologique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.tas.tʁɔf e.kɔ.lɔ.ʒik\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “catastrophe écologique” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for catastrophe écologique is 22 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.tas.tʁɔf e.kɔ.lɔ.ʒik\. 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: "Résultat d'un évènement provoqué involontairement par l'être humain ou consécutif à une activité humaine et nuisant au milieu naturel, par suite de maladresse, de prise de risques exagérée ou de né...".
No misspelling variants are generated for catastrophe écologique 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 catastrophe écologique, spelled C-A-T-A-S-T-R-O-P-H-E- -É-C-O-L-O-G-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Résultat d'un évènement provoqué involontairement par l'être humain ou consécutif à une activité humaine et nuisant au milieu naturel, par suite de maladresse, de prise de risques exagérée ou de négligence. Sa conséquence est la destruction ou la pollution de la nature.
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Using “catastrophe écologique”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-T-A-S-T-R-O-P-H-E- -É-C-O-L-O-G-I-Q-U-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ka.tas.tʁɔf e.kɔ.lɔ.ʒik\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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