date de naissance
The verdict
“date de naissance” 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
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Spécification du jour, du mois et de l’année de la venue au monde de quelqu’un.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | date de naissance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dat də nɛ.sɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “date de naissance” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for date de naissance is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dat də nɛ.sɑ̃s\. 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: "Spécification du jour, du mois et de l’année de la venue au monde de quelqu’un.".
No misspelling variants are generated for date de naissance 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 date de naissance, spelled D-A-T-E- -D-E- -N-A-I-S-S-A-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Spécification du jour, du mois et de l’année de la venue au monde de quelqu’un.
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Using “date de naissance”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-A-T-E- -D-E- -N-A-I-S-S-A-N-C-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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