fonctionnariat

/\fɔ̃k.sjɔ.na.ʁja\/ noun

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

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fonctionnariat is aFrenchnoun. It means: Qualité de fonctionnaire, de celui qui remplit une fonction publique. Pronounced \fɔ̃k.sjɔ.na.ʁja\.

Key facts for fonctionnariat
PropertyValue
Headwordfonctionnariat
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fɔ̃k.sjɔ.na.ʁja\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for fonctionnariat is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɔ̃k.sjɔ.na.ʁja\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for fonctionnariat 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 fonctionnariat, spelled F-O-N-C-T-I-O-N-N-A-R-I-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qualité de fonctionnaire, de celui qui remplit une fonction publique.
  2. 2
    Ensemble des personnes ayant le statut de fonctionnaire.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fonctionnariat"?
"fonctionnariat" is spelled F-O-N-C-T-I-O-N-N-A-R-I-A-T. The IPA pronunciation is \fɔ̃k.sjɔ.na.ʁja\.
What does "fonctionnariat" mean?
As a noun, "fonctionnariat" means: Qualité de fonctionnaire, de celui qui remplit une fonction publique.
How do you pronounce "fonctionnariat"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fonctionnariat" is \fɔ̃k.sjɔ.na.ʁja\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fonctionnariat" come from?
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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.