école de la vie

/\e.kɔl də la vi\/ noun

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.

Key facts for école de la vie
PropertyValue
Headwordécole de la vie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\e.kɔl də la vi\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “école de la vie” sits in French frequency

école de la vie falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Cheminement d'une personne qui apprend les choses par la pratique et la réalité, souvent durement.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "école de la vie"?
"école de la vie" is spelled É-C-O-L-E- -D-E- -L-A- -V-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \e.kɔl də la vi\.
What does "école de la vie" mean?
As a noun, "école de la vie" means: Cheminement d'une personne qui apprend les choses par la pratique et la réalité, souvent durement.
How do you pronounce "école de la vie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "école de la vie" is \e.kɔl də la vi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "école de la vie" come from?
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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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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.