classe ouvrière
The verdict
“classe ouvrière” 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
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Catégorie sociale des prolétaires, ceux qui ne disposent pas de la propriété des moyens de production et doivent vendre leur force de travail pour vivre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | classe ouvrière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kla.s‿u.vʁ.iɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “classe ouvrière” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for classe ouvrière is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kla.s‿u.vʁ.iɛʁ\. 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: "Catégorie sociale des prolétaires, ceux qui ne disposent pas de la propriété des moyens de production et doivent vendre leur force de travail pour vivre.".
No misspelling variants are generated for classe ouvrière 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 classe ouvrière, spelled C-L-A-S-S-E- -O-U-V-R-I-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Catégorie sociale des prolétaires, ceux qui ne disposent pas de la propriété des moyens de production et doivent vendre leur force de travail pour vivre.
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Using “classe ouvrière”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-L-A-S-S-E- -O-U-V-R-I-È-R-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kla.s‿u.vʁ.iɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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