groupe 15
\ɡʁup kɛ̃z\
The verdict
“groupe 15” 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
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Groupe des éléments correspondant à la quinzième colonne du tableau périodique, comprenant l’azote (N), le phosphore (P), l’arsenic (As), l’antimoine (Sb) et le bismuth (Bi).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | groupe 15 |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁup kɛ̃z\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “groupe 15” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for groupe 15 is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁup kɛ̃z\. 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: "Groupe des éléments correspondant à la quinzième colonne du tableau périodique, comprenant l’azote (N), le phosphore (P), l’arsenic (As), l’antimoine (Sb) et le bismuth (Bi).".
No misspelling variants are generated for groupe 15 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 groupe 15, spelled G-R-O-U-P-E- -1-5, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Groupe des éléments correspondant à la quinzième colonne du tableau périodique, comprenant l’azote (N), le phosphore (P), l’arsenic (As), l’antimoine (Sb) et le bismuth (Bi).
Synonyms
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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- The one correct French spelling is G-R-O-U-P-E- -1-5 - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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