exode urbain

/\ɛɡ.zɔd yʁ.bɛ̃\/ noun

The verdict

“exode urbain” 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
12
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Déplacement durable de populations quittant les zones urbaines pour aller s'implanter dans des zones rurales.

Key facts for exode urbain
PropertyValue
Headwordexode urbain
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛɡ.zɔd yʁ.bɛ̃\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “exode urbain” sits in French frequency

exode urbain falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for exode urbain is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛɡ.zɔd yʁ.bɛ̃\. 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: "Déplacement durable de populations quittant les zones urbaines pour aller s'implanter dans des zones rurales.".

No misspelling variants are generated for exode urbain 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 exode urbain, spelled E-X-O-D-E- -U-R-B-A-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Déplacement durable de populations quittant les zones urbaines pour aller s'implanter dans des zones rurales.

Antonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "exode urbain"?
"exode urbain" is spelled E-X-O-D-E- -U-R-B-A-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛɡ.zɔd yʁ.bɛ̃\.
What does "exode urbain" mean?
As a noun, "exode urbain" means: Déplacement durable de populations quittant les zones urbaines pour aller s'implanter dans des zones rurales.
How do you pronounce "exode urbain"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "exode urbain" is \ɛɡ.zɔd yʁ.bɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "exode urbain" come from?
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Using “exode urbain”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is E-X-O-D-E- -U-R-B-A-I-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \ɛɡ.zɔd yʁ.bɛ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.