école primaire
\e.kɔl pʁi.mɛʁ\
The verdict
“école primaire” 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) - Partie de la scolarité regroupant l’école maternelle et l’école élémentaire, et précédant le collège.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | école primaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kɔl pʁi.mɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “école primaire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for école primaire is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.kɔl pʁi.mɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
école primaire has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is école primaire, spelled É-C-O-L-E- -P-R-I-M-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Partie de la scolarité regroupant l’école maternelle et l’école élémentaire, et précédant le collège.
- 2École élémentaire (partie de la scolarité située entre l’école maternelle et le collège).
- 3Bâtiment dans laquelle se déroule cette scolarité.
This word in other languages
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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Using “école primaire”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is É-C-O-L-E- -P-R-I-M-A-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \e.kɔl pʁi.mɛʁ\ (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.