groupe de référence
\ɡʁup də ʁe.fe.ʁɑ̃s\
The verdict
“groupe de référence” 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
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Groupe de personnes représentatif de la partie d’une population la plus exposée à une source.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | groupe de référence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁup də ʁe.fe.ʁɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “groupe de référence” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for groupe de référence is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁup də ʁe.fe.ʁɑ̃s\. 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 de personnes représentatif de la partie d’une population la plus exposée à une source.".
No misspelling variants are generated for groupe de référence in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 groupe de référence, spelled G-R-O-U-P-E- -D-E- -R-É-F-É-R-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Groupe de personnes représentatif de la partie d’une population la plus exposée à une source.
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 practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-R-O-U-P-E- -D-E- -R-É-F-É-R-E-N-C-E - 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.