école de la vie
The verdict
“école de la vie” 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
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Cheminement d'une personne qui apprend les choses par la pratique et la réalité, souvent durement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | école de la vie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kɔl də la vi\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “école de la vie” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for école de la vie is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.kɔl də la vi\. 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: "Cheminement d'une personne qui apprend les choses par la pratique et la réalité, souvent durement.".
No misspelling variants are generated for école de la vie 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 école de la vie, spelled É-C-O-L-E- -D-E- -L-A- -V-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cheminement d'une personne qui apprend les choses par la pratique et la réalité, souvent durement.
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Using “école de la vie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is É-C-O-L-E- -D-E- -L-A- -V-I-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \e.kɔl də la vi\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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