église cathédrale
\e.ɡliz ka.te.dʁal\
The verdict
“église cathédrale” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Église qui est le siège de l’autorité épiscopale dans un diocèse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | église cathédrale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ɡliz ka.te.dʁal\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “église cathédrale” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for église cathédrale is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.ɡliz ka.te.dʁal\. 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: "Église qui est le siège de l’autorité épiscopale dans un diocèse.".
No misspelling variants are generated for église cathédrale 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 église cathédrale, spelled É-G-L-I-S-E- -C-A-T-H-É-D-R-A-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Église qui est le siège de l’autorité épiscopale dans un diocèse.
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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