école primaire
\e.kɔl pʁi.mɛʁ\
The verdict
“école primaire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie de la scolarité regroupant l’école maternelle et l’école élémentaire, et précédant le collège.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecole-primaire · école primaire · French
école primaire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "É" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « école primaire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
école primaire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.kɔl pʁi.mɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how école primaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Louis Pasteur alla d'abord à l’école primaire qui occupait une des salles-annexes du collège d'Arbois. L'enseignement mutuel était alors de mode.
[…] ; comme Combes avait parlé de l’enseignement superficiel et borné de nos écoles primaires, F. Buisson crut devoir protester, en sa qualité de grand pédagogue de la troisième République : […].
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.