donner son congé
\dɔ.ne sɔ̃ kɔ̃.ʒe\
The verdict
“donner son congé” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Déclarer ou faire connaître à quelqu’un qu’il doit se retirer pour ne plus revenir, qu’il doit se désister de quelque chose.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | donner son congé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dɔ.ne sɔ̃ kɔ̃.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “donner son congé” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for donner son congé is 16 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɔ.ne sɔ̃ kɔ̃.ʒe\. 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: "Déclarer ou faire connaître à quelqu’un qu’il doit se retirer pour ne plus revenir, qu’il doit se désister de quelque chose.".
donner son congé has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is donner son congé, spelled D-O-N-N-E-R- -S-O-N- -C-O-N-G-É.
Definition
- 1Déclarer ou faire connaître à quelqu’un qu’il doit se retirer pour ne plus revenir, qu’il doit se désister de quelque chose.
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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Using “donner son congé”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-O-N-N-E-R- -S-O-N- -C-O-N-G-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \dɔ.ne sɔ̃ kɔ̃.ʒe\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.