collier de perles
The verdict
“collier de perles” 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
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Ornement, bijou qui fait le tour du cou, composé d'une série de perles reliées par un ou plusieurs fils plus ou moins rigides selon l’effet recherché par le bijoutier.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | collier de perles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lje də pɛʁl\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “collier de perles” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for collier de perles is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.lje də pɛʁl\. 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 collier de perles 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 collier de perles, spelled C-O-L-L-I-E-R- -D-E- -P-E-R-L-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ornement, bijou qui fait le tour du cou, composé d'une série de perles reliées par un ou plusieurs fils plus ou moins rigides selon l’effet recherché par le bijoutier.
- 2Meuble représentant le bijou du même nom dans les armoiries, généralement représenté par une succession fermée de disques représentant les perles.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-O-L-L-I-E-R- -D-E- -P-E-R-L-E-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɔ.lje də pɛʁl\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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