code de la route
\kɔd də la ʁut\
The verdict
“code de la route” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ensemble des lois et réglements régissant l’utilisation des voies publiques, en particulier la circulation automobile.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | code de la route |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔd də la ʁut\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “code de la route” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for code de la route is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔd də la ʁut\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for code de la route 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 code de la route, spelled C-O-D-E- -D-E- -L-A- -R-O-U-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des lois et réglements régissant l’utilisation des voies publiques, en particulier la circulation automobile.
- 2Examen du permis de conduire sanctionnant les connaissances du code de la route.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-O-D-E- -D-E- -L-A- -R-O-U-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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