décalage vers le rouge
The verdict
“décalage vers le rouge” 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
- 22
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Phénomène astronomique de décalage vers les grandes longueurs d’onde des raies spectrales et de l’ensemble du spectre — ce qui se traduit par un décalage vers le rouge pour le spectre visible — obs...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décalage vers le rouge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.ka.laʒ vɛʁ lə ʁuʒ\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “décalage vers le rouge” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for décalage vers le rouge is 22 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.ka.laʒ vɛʁ lə ʁuʒ\. 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: "Phénomène astronomique de décalage vers les grandes longueurs d’onde des raies spectrales et de l’ensemble du spectre — ce qui se traduit par un décalage vers le rouge pour le spectre visible — obs...".
No misspelling variants are generated for décalage vers le rouge 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 décalage vers le rouge, spelled D-É-C-A-L-A-G-E- -V-E-R-S- -L-E- -R-O-U-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Phénomène astronomique de décalage vers les grandes longueurs d’onde des raies spectrales et de l’ensemble du spectre — ce qui se traduit par un décalage vers le rouge pour le spectre visible — observé parmi les objets astronomiques lointains.
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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- The one correct French spelling is D-É-C-A-L-A-G-E- -V-E-R-S- -L-E- -R-O-U-G-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \de.ka.laʒ vɛʁ lə ʁuʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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