esprit de corps

/\ɛs.pʁi də kɔʁ\/ noun

Letters

15 characters

Language

French

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esprit de corps is aFrenchnoun. It means: Attachement des membres d’un groupe aux opinions, aux droits, aux intérêts du groupe. Pronounced \ɛs.pʁi də kɔʁ\.

Key facts for esprit de corps
PropertyValue
Headwordesprit de corps
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛs.pʁi də kɔʁ\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

esprit de corps is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for esprit de corps is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛs.pʁi də kɔʁ\. 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: "Attachement des membres d’un groupe aux opinions, aux droits, aux intérêts du groupe.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for esprit de corps in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 esprit de corps, spelled E-S-P-R-I-T- -D-E- -C-O-R-P-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Attachement des membres d’un groupe aux opinions, aux droits, aux intérêts du groupe.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "esprit de corps"?
"esprit de corps" is spelled E-S-P-R-I-T- -D-E- -C-O-R-P-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛs.pʁi də kɔʁ\.
What does "esprit de corps" mean?
As a noun, "esprit de corps" means: Attachement des membres d’un groupe aux opinions, aux droits, aux intérêts du groupe.
How do you pronounce "esprit de corps"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "esprit de corps" is \ɛs.pʁi də kɔʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "esprit de corps" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.