élection de domicile
\e.lɛk.sjɔ̃ də dɔ.mi.sil\
The verdict
“élection de domicile” 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
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Désignation d'un lieu certain et connu où tous les actes de justice peuvent être signifiés.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | élection de domicile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.lɛk.sjɔ̃ də dɔ.mi.sil\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “élection de domicile” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for élection de domicile is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.lɛk.sjɔ̃ də dɔ.mi.sil\. 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: "Désignation d'un lieu certain et connu où tous les actes de justice peuvent être signifiés.".
No misspelling variants are generated for élection de domicile 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 élection de domicile, spelled É-L-E-C-T-I-O-N- -D-E- -D-O-M-I-C-I-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Désignation d'un lieu certain et connu où tous les actes de justice peuvent être signifiés.
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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- The one correct French spelling is É-L-E-C-T-I-O-N- -D-E- -D-O-M-I-C-I-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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