général de division
The verdict
“général de division” 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
- 19
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Grade d’officier général utilisé dans l’armée de terre et la gendarmerie nationale de France, situé entre son supérieur hiérarchique, le général de corps d’armée, et son subordonné, le général de b...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | général de division |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒe.ne.ʁal də di.vi.zjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “général de division” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for général de division is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒe.ne.ʁal də di.vi.zjɔ̃\. 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: "Grade d’officier général utilisé dans l’armée de terre et la gendarmerie nationale de France, situé entre son supérieur hiérarchique, le général de corps d’armée, et son subordonné, le général de b...".
No misspelling variants are generated for général de division 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 général de division, spelled G-É-N-É-R-A-L- -D-E- -D-I-V-I-S-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Grade d’officier général utilisé dans l’armée de terre et la gendarmerie nationale de France, situé entre son supérieur hiérarchique, le général de corps d’armée, et son subordonné, le général de brigade. Le code OTAN : OF-7.
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- The one correct French spelling is G-É-N-É-R-A-L- -D-E- -D-I-V-I-S-I-O-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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