collier de perles

/\kɔ.lje də pɛʁl\/ noun

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.

Key facts for collier de perles
PropertyValue
Headwordcollier de perles
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ.lje də pɛʁl\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “collier de perles” sits in French frequency

collier de perles falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    Meuble représentant le bijou du même nom dans les armoiries, généralement représenté par une succession fermée de disques représentant les perles.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "collier de perles"?
"collier de perles" is spelled C-O-L-L-I-E-R- -D-E- -P-E-R-L-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.lje də pɛʁl\.
What does "collier de perles" mean?
As a noun, "collier de perles" means: 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.
How do you pronounce "collier de perles"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "collier de perles" is \kɔ.lje də pɛʁl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "collier de perles" come from?
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Using “collier de perles”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • 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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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.