Cour pénale internationale
\kuʁ pe.na.l‿ɛ̃.tɛʁ.na.sjɔ.nal\
The verdict
“Cour pénale internationale” 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
- 26
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Juridiction permanente chargée de juger les personnes accusées de génocide, de crime contre l’humanité et de crime de guerre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cour pénale internationale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kuʁ pe.na.l‿ɛ̃.tɛʁ.na.sjɔ.nal\ |
| Letters | 26 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Cour pénale internationale” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Cour pénale internationale is 26 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kuʁ pe.na.l‿ɛ̃.tɛʁ.na.sjɔ.nal\. 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 permanente chargée de juger les personnes accusées de génocide, de crime contre l’humanité et de crime de guerre.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Cour pénale internationale 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 Cour pénale internationale, spelled C-O-U-R- -P-É-N-A-L-E- -I-N-T-E-R-N-A-T-I-O-N-A-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Juridiction permanente chargée de juger les personnes accusées de génocide, de crime contre l’humanité et de crime de guerre.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-O-U-R- -P-É-N-A-L-E- -I-N-T-E-R-N-A-T-I-O-N-A-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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