contrôle qualité
\kɔ̃.tʁol ka.li.te\
The verdict
“contrôle qualité” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Activité, ensemble des processus et opérations visant à contrôler la qualité des produits, services, documents, etc., c'est-à-dire leur conformité aux spécifications.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contrôle qualité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁol ka.li.te\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “contrôle qualité” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
contrôle qualité is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.tʁol ka.li.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for contrôle qualité in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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. The correct French form is contrôle qualité, spelled C-O-N-T-R-Ô-L-E- -Q-U-A-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Activité, ensemble des processus et opérations visant à contrôler la qualité des produits, services, documents, etc., c'est-à-dire leur conformité aux spécifications.
- 2Une opération de contrôle réalisée dans le cadre de l'activité susmensionnée.
This word in other languages
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 “contrôle qualité”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-N-T-R-Ô-L-E- -Q-U-A-L-I-T-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɔ̃.tʁol ka.li.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.