conseil de préfecture
\kɔ̃.sɛj də pʁe.fɛk.tyʁ\
The verdict
“conseil de préfecture” 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
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Juridiction établie dans chaque département pour prononcer en première instance, et sauf le recours au Conseil d’État, sur un certain nombre d’affaires contentieuses qui sont de la compétence de l’...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | conseil de préfecture |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.sɛj də pʁe.fɛk.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “conseil de préfecture” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for conseil de préfecture is 21 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.sɛj də pʁe.fɛk.tyʁ\. 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: "Juridiction établie dans chaque département pour prononcer en première instance, et sauf le recours au Conseil d’État, sur un certain nombre d’affaires contentieuses qui sont de la compétence de l’...".
conseil de préfecture has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is conseil de préfecture, spelled C-O-N-S-E-I-L- -D-E- -P-R-É-F-E-C-T-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Juridiction établie dans chaque département pour prononcer en première instance, et sauf le recours au Conseil d’État, sur un certain nombre d’affaires contentieuses qui sont de la compétence de l’autorité administrative.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “conseil de préfecture”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-O-N-S-E-I-L- -D-E- -P-R-É-F-E-C-T-U-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.