directeur général
The verdict
“directeur général” 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: Salarié qui occupe le rang le plus élevé dans l'administration d'une entreprise.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | directeur général |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.ʁɛk.tœʁ ʒe.ne.ʁal\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “directeur général” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for directeur général is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \di.ʁɛk.tœʁ ʒe.ne.ʁal\. 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: "Salarié qui occupe le rang le plus élevé dans l'administration d'une entreprise.".
No misspelling variants are generated for directeur général 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 général, spelled D-I-R-E-C-T-E-U-R- -G-É-N-É-R-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Salarié qui occupe le rang le plus élevé dans l'administration d'une entreprise.
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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- -G-É-N-É-R-A-L — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \di.ʁɛk.tœʁ ʒe.ne.ʁal\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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