contrôle parental
\kɔ̃.tʁol pa.ʁɑ̃.tal\
The verdict
“contrôle parental” 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
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Dispositif qui permet aux parents de restreindre automatiquement l’accès de leurs enfants à un média (Internet, télévision, console de jeu) en le limitant à certaines catégories de contenus, afin d...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contrôle parental |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁol pa.ʁɑ̃.tal\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “contrôle parental” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for contrôle parental is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.tʁol pa.ʁɑ̃.tal\. 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: "Dispositif qui permet aux parents de restreindre automatiquement l’accès de leurs enfants à un média (Internet, télévision, console de jeu) en le limitant à certaines catégories de contenus, afin d...".
No misspelling variants are generated for contrôle parental 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 contrôle parental, spelled C-O-N-T-R-Ô-L-E- -P-A-R-E-N-T-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dispositif qui permet aux parents de restreindre automatiquement l’accès de leurs enfants à un média (Internet, télévision, console de jeu) en le limitant à certaines catégories de contenus, afin de les protéger, en particulier contre les risques de pédophilie et les contenus considérés comme choquants pour leur âge (pornographie, violence).
Synonyms
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Using “contrôle parental”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-O-N-T-R-Ô-L-E- -P-A-R-E-N-T-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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