congédiement
\kɔ̃.ʒe.di.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“congédiement” is uncommon French (frequency #51,373 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,373
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de licencier ou de congédier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-congediement · congédiement · French
congédiement · rank #51,373 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,373
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH confédéral
Nearest frequency peer: confédéral (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « congédiement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- conciliateur
conciliateur
48,631 corpus weight
- conditionne…
conditionnelles
48,630 corpus weight
- confédéral
confédéral
48,629 corpus weight
- congédiement
congédiement
48,628 corpus weight
- contiendrait
contiendrait
48,627 corpus weight
- contée
contée
48,626 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « congédiement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | congédiement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.ʒe.di.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #51,373 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « congédiement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
congédiement is uncommon French at frequency #51,373 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.ʒe.di.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de licencier ou de congédier.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for congédiement in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is congédiement, spelled C-O-N-G-É-D-I-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action de licencier ou de congédier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how congédiement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'est au capitaine de démonter le caractère injustifié de son congédiement. Toutefois, en l'espèce, la Cour de Douai avait considéré le congédiement par l’armateur injustifié, aucun élément ne démontrant les insuffisances de résultats.
Le maire était bien content que Louis abandonne Port-Nicolas, et Louis ressassait sa désillusion et son congédiement discret.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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