égalité devant la loi
\e.ɡa.li.te də.vɑ̃ la lwa\
The verdict
“égalité devant la loi” 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
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Principe juridique selon lequel tous les citoyens doivent être traités de la même manière par la loi, sans privilèges ni discriminations, sauf distinctions fondées sur une différence de situation.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | égalité devant la loi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ɡa.li.te də.vɑ̃ la lwa\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “égalité devant la loi” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for égalité devant la loi is 21 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.ɡa.li.te də.vɑ̃ la lwa\. 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: "Principe juridique selon lequel tous les citoyens doivent être traités de la même manière par la loi, sans privilèges ni discriminations, sauf distinctions fondées sur une différence de situation.".
No misspelling variants are generated for égalité devant la loi 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 égalité devant la loi, spelled É-G-A-L-I-T-É- -D-E-V-A-N-T- -L-A- -L-O-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Principe juridique selon lequel tous les citoyens doivent être traités de la même manière par la loi, sans privilèges ni discriminations, sauf distinctions fondées sur une différence de situation.
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- The one correct French spelling is É-G-A-L-I-T-É- -D-E-V-A-N-T- -L-A- -L-O-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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