écran de veille

/\e.kʁɑ̃ də vɛj\/ noun

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).

Key facts for écran de veille
PropertyValue
Headwordécran de veille
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\e.kʁɑ̃ də vɛj\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “écran de veille” sits in French frequency

écran de veille falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    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).

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "écran de veille"?
"écran de veille" is spelled É-C-R-A-N- -D-E- -V-E-I-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \e.kʁɑ̃ də vɛj\.
What does "écran de veille" mean?
As a noun, "écran de veille" means: 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).
How do you pronounce "écran de veille"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "écran de veille" is \e.kʁɑ̃ də vɛj\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "écran de veille" come from?
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Using “écran de veille”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • 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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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.