concours de circonstances

/\kɔ̃.kuʁ də siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃s\/ noun

Letters

25 characters

Language

French

word origin

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concours de circonstances is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ensemble de circonstances qui, ensemble, contribuent de façon non planifiée à quelque chose. Pronounced \kɔ̃.kuʁ də siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃s\.

Key facts for concours de circonstances
PropertyValue
Headwordconcours de circonstances
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ̃.kuʁ də siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃s\
Letters25
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

concours de circonstances is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for concours de circonstances is 25 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.kuʁ də siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃s\. 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: "Ensemble de circonstances qui, ensemble, contribuent de façon non planifiée à quelque chose.".

No misspelling variants are generated for concours de circonstances 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 concours de circonstances, spelled C-O-N-C-O-U-R-S- -D-E- -C-I-R-C-O-N-S-T-A-N-C-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ensemble de circonstances qui, ensemble, contribuent de façon non planifiée à quelque chose.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "concours de circonstances"?
"concours de circonstances" is spelled C-O-N-C-O-U-R-S- -D-E- -C-I-R-C-O-N-S-T-A-N-C-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.kuʁ də siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃s\.
What does "concours de circonstances" mean?
As a noun, "concours de circonstances" means: Ensemble de circonstances qui, ensemble, contribuent de façon non planifiée à quelque chose.
How do you pronounce "concours de circonstances"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "concours de circonstances" is \kɔ̃.kuʁ də siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.