entrée en fonction
\ɑ̃.tʁe ɑ̃ fɔ̃k.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“entrée en fonction” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Fait d’entrer en fonction dans une entreprise, un ministère, etc.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entrée en fonction |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tʁe ɑ̃ fɔ̃k.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “entrée en fonction” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for entrée en fonction is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.tʁe ɑ̃ fɔ̃k.sjɔ̃\. 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: "Fait d’entrer en fonction dans une entreprise, un ministère, etc.".
No misspelling variants are generated for entrée en fonction 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 entrée en fonction, spelled E-N-T-R-É-E- -E-N- -F-O-N-C-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fait d’entrer en fonction dans une entreprise, un ministère, etc.
Synonyms
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 E-N-T-R-É-E- -E-N- -F-O-N-C-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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