écart de langage
The verdict
“écart de langage” 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
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Paroles déplacées.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écart de langage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kaʁ də lɑ̃.ɡaʒ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “écart de langage” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for écart de langage is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.kaʁ də lɑ̃.ɡaʒ\. 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: "Paroles déplacées.".
No misspelling variants are generated for écart de langage 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 écart de langage, spelled É-C-A-R-T- -D-E- -L-A-N-G-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Paroles déplacées.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is É-C-A-R-T- -D-E- -L-A-N-G-A-G-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \e.kaʁ də lɑ̃.ɡaʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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