eccezione che conferma la regola
\et.t͡ʃe.ˈt͡sjo.ne ke kon.ˈfer.ma la rɛ.ˈɡɔ.la\
The verdict
“eccezione che conferma la regola” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
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- below top-frequency French
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According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Exception qui confirme la règle, violation évidente de la règle habituelle qui, par son existence, tend à prouver le bien-fondé de la règle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eccezione che conferma la regola |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \et.t͡ʃe.ˈt͡sjo.ne ke kon.ˈfer.ma la rɛ.ˈɡɔ.la\ |
| Letters | 32 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “eccezione che conferma la regola” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for eccezione che conferma la regola is 32 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \et.t͡ʃe.ˈt͡sjo.ne ke kon.ˈfer.ma la rɛ.ˈɡɔ.la\. 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: "Exception qui confirme la règle, violation évidente de la règle habituelle qui, par son existence, tend à prouver le bien-fondé de la règle.".
No misspelling variants are generated for eccezione che conferma la regola 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 eccezione che conferma la regola, spelled E-C-C-E-Z-I-O-N-E- -C-H-E- -C-O-N-F-E-R-M-A- -L-A- -R-E-G-O-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Exception qui confirme la règle, violation évidente de la règle habituelle qui, par son existence, tend à prouver le bien-fondé de la règle.
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- The one correct French spelling is E-C-C-E-Z-I-O-N-E- -C-H-E- -C-O-N-F-E-R-M-A- -L-A- -R-E-G-O-L-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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