grande coalition
\gʁɑ̃d kɔ.a.li.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“grande coalition” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Arrangement dans lequel les deux principaux partis politiques de deux idéologies politiques opposées s'allient pour former un gouvernement de coalition. En particulier une coalition agrégeant un no...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grande coalition |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \gʁɑ̃d kɔ.a.li.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “grande coalition” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for grande coalition is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \gʁɑ̃d kɔ.a.li.sjɔ̃\. 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: "Arrangement dans lequel les deux principaux partis politiques de deux idéologies politiques opposées s'allient pour former un gouvernement de coalition. En particulier une coalition agrégeant un no...".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for grande coalition, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is grande coalition, spelled G-R-A-N-D-E- -C-O-A-L-I-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Arrangement dans lequel les deux principaux partis politiques de deux idéologies politiques opposées s'allient pour former un gouvernement de coalition. En particulier une coalition agrégeant un nombre de groupes supérieur au nombre de groupes nécessaire à la formation d'une coalition simple.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “grande coalition”
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- The one correct French spelling is G-R-A-N-D-E- -C-O-A-L-I-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.