extrême droite
\ɛk.stʁɛm dʁwat\
The verdict
“extrême droite” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Partie la plus à droite d’une chose ou d’un groupe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | extrême droite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛk.stʁɛm dʁwat\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “extrême droite” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for extrême droite is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛk.stʁɛm dʁwat\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for extrême droite 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 extrême droite, spelled E-X-T-R-Ê-M-E- -D-R-O-I-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie la plus à droite d’une chose ou d’un groupe.
- 2Ensemble des individus, groupes, mouvements et partis politiques défendant des idées et valeurs très à droite et s’appuyant sur un conservatisme et un nationalisme exacerbés.
- 3Classification donnée par la personne utilisant le mot à tout mouvement de droite dont les actions sont considérées comme trop extrêmes ou dénuées de raison.
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Using “extrême droite”
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- The one correct French spelling is E-X-T-R-Ê-M-E- -D-R-O-I-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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