département
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,136
in French word usage
Misspellings
18
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
département is aFrenchnoun. It means: Chacune des parties des affaires d’État, distribuées entre les ministres et dont la connaissance leur est attribuée. Pronounced \de.paʁ.tə.mɑ̃\. It ranks #1,136 in French word frequency. Often confused with department and dépassement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | département |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.paʁ.tə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #1,136 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for département is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.paʁ.tə.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,136 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 18 documented wrong-spelling variants for département, with forms such as "ddépartement", "departement", and "dpéartement". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "department", "dépassement", "désarmement", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 département, spelled D-É-P-A-R-T-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Chacune des parties des affaires d’État, distribuées entre les ministres et dont la connaissance leur est attribuée.
- 2Principale division administrative du territoire français. La France compte cent départements dont quatre départements d’outre-mer.
- 3L’administration qui dirige ce territoire.
- 4L’ensemble des habitants de ce territoire.
- 5Province, par opposition à la capitale.
- 6Unité dans le schéma d’organisation hiérarchique à l’intérieur d’une entreprise.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddépartement,departement,dpéartement,déaprtement,déparetment,déparrtement,départeemnt,départemennt,départementt,départemetn,départemment,départemnet,départmeent,départtement,dépatrement,déppartement,dépratement,édpartement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for département
Misspelling Variants of "département"
Frequency rank: #1,136 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter D in our French index: