école ménagère
\e.kɔl me.na.ʒɛʁ\
The verdict
“école ménagère” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Institutions où l'on enseignait en France entre 1862 et 1972, les arts ménagers aux jeunes filles afin que celles-ci deviennent ce que la société de l'époque considérait des « bonnes épouses ».
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | école ménagère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kɔl me.na.ʒɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “école ménagère” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for école ménagère is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.kɔl me.na.ʒɛʁ\. 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: "Institutions où l'on enseignait en France entre 1862 et 1972, les arts ménagers aux jeunes filles afin que celles-ci deviennent ce que la société de l'époque considérait des « bonnes épouses ».".
No misspelling variants are generated for école ménagère 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 ménagère, spelled É-C-O-L-E- -M-É-N-A-G-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Institutions où l'on enseignait en France entre 1862 et 1972, les arts ménagers aux jeunes filles afin que celles-ci deviennent ce que la société de l'époque considérait des « bonnes épouses ».
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is É-C-O-L-E- -M-É-N-A-G-È-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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