directeur de la photographie

\di.ʁɛk.tœʁ də la fɔ.to.ɡʁa.fi\

/\di.ʁɛk.tœʁ də la fɔ.to.ɡʁa.fi\/ noun

The verdict

“directeur de la photographie” 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
28
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Personne responsable de la prise de vue dans un film ou une émission télévisée.

Key facts for directeur de la photographie
PropertyValue
Headworddirecteur de la photographie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\di.ʁɛk.tœʁ də la fɔ.to.ɡʁa.fi\
Letters28
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “directeur de la photographie” sits in French frequency

directeur de la photographie 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 directeur de la photographie is 28 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \di.ʁɛk.tœʁ də la fɔ.to.ɡʁa.fi\. 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: "Personne responsable de la prise de vue dans un film ou une émission télévisée.".

No misspelling variants are generated for directeur de la photographie 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 directeur de la photographie, spelled D-I-R-E-C-T-E-U-R- -D-E- -L-A- -P-H-O-T-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personne responsable de la prise de vue dans un film ou une émission télévisée.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "directeur de la photographie"?
"directeur de la photographie" is spelled D-I-R-E-C-T-E-U-R- -D-E- -L-A- -P-H-O-T-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \di.ʁɛk.tœʁ də la fɔ.to.ɡʁa.fi\.
What does "directeur de la photographie" mean?
As a noun, "directeur de la photographie" means: Personne responsable de la prise de vue dans un film ou une émission télévisée.
How do you pronounce "directeur de la photographie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "directeur de la photographie" is \di.ʁɛk.tœʁ də la fɔ.to.ɡʁa.fi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “directeur de la photographie”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is D-I-R-E-C-T-E-U-R- -D-E- -L-A- -P-H-O-T-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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