dépôt de bilan
\de.po də bi.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“dépôt de bilan” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne appellation d’une cessation des paiements en droit français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-depot-de-bilan · dépôt de bilan · French
dépôt de bilan · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dépôt de bilan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.po də bi.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dépôt de bilan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dépôt de bilan is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.po də bi.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancienne appellation d’une cessation des paiements en droit français.".
dépôt de bilan doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dépôt de bilan, spelled D-É-P-Ô-T- -D-E- -B-I-L-A-N.
Definition
- 1Ancienne appellation d’une cessation des paiements en droit français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dépôt de bilan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À ce titre, une entreprise dont l’assise financière est sûre sera plus à même d’affronter les difficultés que peuvent générer un abandon de chantier, un accident ou un dépôt de bilan par l’un de ses sous-traitants.
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.