expérience de pensée
\ɛks.peʁ.jɑ̃s də pɑ̃.se\
The verdict
“expérience de pensée” 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) — Expérience réalisée uniquement dans l’imagination.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | expérience de pensée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛks.peʁ.jɑ̃s də pɑ̃.se\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “expérience de pensée” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for expérience de pensée is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛks.peʁ.jɑ̃s də pɑ̃.se\. 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: "Expérience réalisée uniquement dans l’imagination.".
No misspelling variants are generated for expérience de pensée 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 expérience de pensée, spelled E-X-P-É-R-I-E-N-C-E- -D-E- -P-E-N-S-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Expérience réalisée uniquement dans l’imagination.
This word in other languages
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- The one correct French spelling is E-X-P-É-R-I-E-N-C-E- -D-E- -P-E-N-S-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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