droit d’auteur

/\dʁwa d‿o.tœʁ\/ noun

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

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droit d’auteur is aFrenchnoun. It means: Protection des œuvres contre la copie et du propriétaire des droits patrimoniaux sur l’œuvre. Pronounced \dʁwa d‿o.tœʁ\.

Key facts for droit d’auteur
PropertyValue
Headworddroit d’auteur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dʁwa d‿o.tœʁ\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

droit d’auteur is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for droit d’auteur is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dʁwa d‿o.tœʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for droit d’auteur in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 droit d’auteur, spelled D-R-O-I-T- -D-’-A-U-T-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Protection des œuvres contre la copie et du propriétaire des droits patrimoniaux sur l’œuvre.
  2. 2
    Prérogative attribuée à l'auteur d'une œuvre de l'esprit (écrits, conférences, dramatiques, œuvres chorégraphiques, cinématographique, graphiques, phonographique, logiciels...). Le droit d'auteur comporte un droit pécuniaire (droit de tirer profit de l’œuvre ) et un droit moral.
  3. 3
    Ensemble des revenus financiers qui y sont liés.
  4. 4
    Redevance perçue par un auteur pour l’exploitation commerciale de son œuvre.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "droit d’auteur"?
"droit d’auteur" is spelled D-R-O-I-T- -D-’-A-U-T-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \dʁwa d‿o.tœʁ\.
What does "droit d’auteur" mean?
As a noun, "droit d’auteur" means: Protection des œuvres contre la copie et du propriétaire des droits patrimoniaux sur l’œuvre.
How do you pronounce "droit d’auteur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "droit d’auteur" is \dʁwa d‿o.tœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "droit d’auteur" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.