école de pensée

/\e.kɔl də pɑ̃.se\/ noun

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.

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

Where “école de pensée” sits in French frequency

école de pensée 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 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

  1. 1
    Ensemble de personnes qui partage des opinions semblables dans une discipline.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "école de pensée"?
"école de pensée" is spelled É-C-O-L-E- -D-E- -P-E-N-S-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \e.kɔl də pɑ̃.se\.
What does "école de pensée" mean?
As a noun, "école de pensée" means: Ensemble de personnes qui partage des opinions semblables dans une discipline.
How do you pronounce "école de pensée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "école de pensée" is \e.kɔl də pɑ̃.se\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "école de pensée" come from?
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Using “école de pensée”

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- -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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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.