enseigne de vaisseau de première classe
\ɑ̃.sɛɲ də vɛ.so də pʁə.mjɛʁ klas\
The verdict
“enseigne de vaisseau de première classe” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
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- below top-frequency French
- 39
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Grade donné à un officier subalterne dans la Marine nationale française, situé entre son supérieur hiérarchique, le lieutenant de vaisseau, et son subordonné, l’enseigne de vaisseau de deuxième cla...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enseigne de vaisseau de première classe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.sɛɲ də vɛ.so də pʁə.mjɛʁ klas\ |
| Letters | 39 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “enseigne de vaisseau de première classe” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for enseigne de vaisseau de première classe is 39 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.sɛɲ də vɛ.so də pʁə.mjɛʁ klas\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for enseigne de vaisseau de première classe 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 enseigne de vaisseau de première classe, spelled E-N-S-E-I-G-N-E- -D-E- -V-A-I-S-S-E-A-U- -D-E- -P-R-E-M-I-È-R-E- -C-L-A-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Grade donné à un officier subalterne dans la Marine nationale française, situé entre son supérieur hiérarchique, le lieutenant de vaisseau, et son subordonné, l’enseigne de vaisseau de deuxième classe. Ce grade correspond à celui de lieutenant dans les autres armées françaises. Le code OTAN : OF-1.
- 2Grade d’officier de la Marine royale canadienne.
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- The one correct French spelling is E-N-S-E-I-G-N-E- -D-E- -V-A-I-S-S-E-A-U- -D-E- -P-R-E-M-I-È-R-E- -C-L-A-S-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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