école élémentaire
\e.kɔ.l‿e.le.mɑ̃.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“école élémentaire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Établissement scolaire accueillant les enfants de 6 à 11 ans environ et ayant pour mission l’apprentissage des notions de base en lecture, écriture et calcul et qui, avec l’école maternelle, consti...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | école élémentaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kɔ.l‿e.le.mɑ̃.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “école élémentaire” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
école élémentaire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.kɔ.l‿e.le.mɑ̃.tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Établissement scolaire accueillant les enfants de 6 à 11 ans environ et ayant pour mission l’apprentissage des notions de base en lecture, écriture et calcul et qui, avec l’école maternelle, consti...".
Zero misspellings are on record for école élémentaire in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is école élémentaire, spelled É-C-O-L-E- -É-L-É-M-E-N-T-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Établissement scolaire accueillant les enfants de 6 à 11 ans environ et ayant pour mission l’apprentissage des notions de base en lecture, écriture et calcul et qui, avec l’école maternelle, constitue l’école primaire.
This word in other languages
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- The one correct French spelling is É-C-O-L-E- -É-L-É-M-E-N-T-A-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.