entretien individuel
\ɑ̃.tʁə.tjɛ̃ ɛ̃.di.vi.dɥɛl\
The verdict
“entretien individuel” 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) — Rendez-vous facultatif entre le salarié et l'employeur, pour évaluer les performances du premier, généralement tous les ans.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entretien individuel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tʁə.tjɛ̃ ɛ̃.di.vi.dɥɛl\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “entretien individuel” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for entretien individuel is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.tʁə.tjɛ̃ ɛ̃.di.vi.dɥɛl\. 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: "Rendez-vous facultatif entre le salarié et l'employeur, pour évaluer les performances du premier, généralement tous les ans.".
No misspelling variants are generated for entretien individuel 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 entretien individuel, spelled E-N-T-R-E-T-I-E-N- -I-N-D-I-V-I-D-U-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rendez-vous facultatif entre le salarié et l'employeur, pour évaluer les performances du premier, généralement tous les ans.
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- The one correct French spelling is E-N-T-R-E-T-I-E-N- -I-N-D-I-V-I-D-U-E-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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