Corée du Nord
\kɔ.ʁe dy nɔʁ\
The verdict
“Corée du Nord” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
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- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — État asiatique occupant la moitié nord de la péninsule Coréenne, bordé au nord par la Chine et la Russie, à l’est par la mer du Japon, au sud par la Corée du Sud, à l’ouest par la mer Jaune et dont...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Corée du Nord |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.ʁe dy nɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Corée du Nord” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Corée du Nord is 13 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.ʁe dy nɔʁ\. 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: "État asiatique occupant la moitié nord de la péninsule Coréenne, bordé au nord par la Chine et la Russie, à l’est par la mer du Japon, au sud par la Corée du Sud, à l’ouest par la mer Jaune et dont...".
No misspelling variants are generated for Corée du Nord 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 Corée du Nord, spelled C-O-R-É-E- -D-U- -N-O-R-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1État asiatique occupant la moitié nord de la péninsule Coréenne, bordé au nord par la Chine et la Russie, à l’est par la mer du Japon, au sud par la Corée du Sud, à l’ouest par la mer Jaune et dont la capitale est Pyongyang.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-O-R-É-E- -D-U- -N-O-R-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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