date de naissance

/\dat də nɛ.sɑ̃s\/ noun

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.

Key facts for date de naissance
PropertyValue
Headworddate de naissance
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dat də nɛ.sɑ̃s\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “date de naissance” sits in French frequency

date de naissance 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 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

  1. 1
    Spécification du jour, du mois et de l’année de la venue au monde de quelqu’un.

This word in other languages

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "date de naissance"?
"date de naissance" is spelled D-A-T-E- -D-E- -N-A-I-S-S-A-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \dat də nɛ.sɑ̃s\.
What does "date de naissance" mean?
As a noun, "date de naissance" means: Spécification du jour, du mois et de l’année de la venue au monde de quelqu’un.
How do you pronounce "date de naissance"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "date de naissance" is \dat də nɛ.sɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "date de naissance" come from?
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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.
  • Say it as \dat də nɛ.sɑ̃s\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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