école de pensée
The verdict
“école de pensée” 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: Ensemble de personnes qui partage des opinions semblables dans une discipline.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | école de pensée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kɔl də pɑ̃.se\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “école de pensée” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for école de pensée is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.kɔl də pɑ̃.se\. 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: "Ensemble de personnes qui partage des opinions semblables dans une discipline.".
No misspelling variants are generated for école de pensée 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 pensée, spelled É-C-O-L-E- -D-E- -P-E-N-S-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ensemble de personnes qui partage des opinions semblables dans une discipline.
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- The one correct French spelling is É-C-O-L-E- -D-E- -P-E-N-S-É-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \e.kɔl də pɑ̃.se\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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