congé de paternité

/\kɔ̃.ʒe də pa.tɛʁ.ni.te\/ noun

The verdict

“congé de paternité” 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
18
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Variante de congé paternité.

Key facts for congé de paternité
PropertyValue
Headwordcongé de paternité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ̃.ʒe də pa.tɛʁ.ni.te\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “congé de paternité” sits in French frequency

congé de paternité 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 congé de paternité is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.ʒe də pa.tɛʁ.ni.te\. 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: "Variante de congé paternité.".

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

Definition

  1. 1
    Variante de congé paternité.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "congé de paternité"?
"congé de paternité" is spelled C-O-N-G-É- -D-E- -P-A-T-E-R-N-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.ʒe də pa.tɛʁ.ni.te\.
What does "congé de paternité" mean?
As a noun, "congé de paternité" means: Variante de congé paternité.
How do you pronounce "congé de paternité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "congé de paternité" is \kɔ̃.ʒe də pa.tɛʁ.ni.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "congé de paternité" come from?
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Using “congé de paternité”

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

  • The one correct French spelling is C-O-N-G-É- -D-E- -P-A-T-E-R-N-I-T-É — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \kɔ̃.ʒe də pa.tɛʁ.ni.te\ (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.