crise de la quarantaine

\kʁiz də la ka.ʁɑ̃.tɛn\

/\kʁiz də la ka.ʁɑ̃.tɛn\/ noun

The verdict

“crise de la quarantaine” 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
23
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Période entre la jeunesse à la vieillesse pendant laquelle certaines personnes se posent des questions sur plusieurs aspects de leur vie et peuvent faire des changements radicaux.

Key facts for crise de la quarantaine
PropertyValue
Headwordcrise de la quarantaine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kʁiz də la ka.ʁɑ̃.tɛn\
Letters23
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “crise de la quarantaine” sits in French frequency

crise de la quarantaine falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for crise de la quarantaine is 23 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁiz də la ka.ʁɑ̃.tɛn\. 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: "Période entre la jeunesse à la vieillesse pendant laquelle certaines personnes se posent des questions sur plusieurs aspects de leur vie et peuvent faire des changements radicaux.".

No misspelling variants are generated for crise de la quarantaine 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 crise de la quarantaine, spelled C-R-I-S-E- -D-E- -L-A- -Q-U-A-R-A-N-T-A-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Période entre la jeunesse à la vieillesse pendant laquelle certaines personnes se posent des questions sur plusieurs aspects de leur vie et peuvent faire des changements radicaux.

Synonyms

crise de milieu de vie

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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "crise de la quarantaine"?
"crise de la quarantaine" is spelled C-R-I-S-E- -D-E- -L-A- -Q-U-A-R-A-N-T-A-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁiz də la ka.ʁɑ̃.tɛn\.
What does "crise de la quarantaine" mean?
As a noun, "crise de la quarantaine" means: Période entre la jeunesse à la vieillesse pendant laquelle certaines personnes se posent des questions sur plusieurs aspects de leur vie et peuvent faire des changements radicaux.
How do you pronounce "crise de la quarantaine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "crise de la quarantaine" is \kʁiz də la ka.ʁɑ̃.tɛn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “crise de la quarantaine”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is C-R-I-S-E- -D-E- -L-A- -Q-U-A-R-A-N-T-A-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \kʁiz də la ka.ʁɑ̃.tɛn\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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