écran de veille
The verdict
“écran de veille” 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: Programme informatique lancé sur un écran allumé mais inutilisé, pour afficher divers choses dessus, en général des photos ou des images géométriques animées (courbe de Béziers).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écran de veille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kʁɑ̃ də vɛj\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “écran de veille” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for écran de veille is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.kʁɑ̃ də vɛj\. 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: "Programme informatique lancé sur un écran allumé mais inutilisé, pour afficher divers choses dessus, en général des photos ou des images géométriques animées (courbe de Béziers).".
No misspelling variants are generated for écran de veille 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 écran de veille, spelled É-C-R-A-N- -D-E- -V-E-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Programme informatique lancé sur un écran allumé mais inutilisé, pour afficher divers choses dessus, en général des photos ou des images géométriques animées (courbe de Béziers).
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- The one correct French spelling is É-C-R-A-N- -D-E- -V-E-I-L-L-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \e.kʁɑ̃ də vɛj\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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