harcèlement de plage
^((h aspiré))\aʁ.sɛl.mɑ̃ də plaʒ\
The verdict
“harcèlement de plage” 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
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Comportement d’interpellation d’une personne à la plage réalisé de manière intimidante, irrespectueuse, menaçante ou insultante, en raison de son sexe, de son genre ou de son orientation sexuelle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | harcèlement de plage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\aʁ.sɛl.mɑ̃ də plaʒ\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “harcèlement de plage” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for harcèlement de plage is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h aspiré))\aʁ.sɛl.mɑ̃ də plaʒ\. 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: "Comportement d’interpellation d’une personne à la plage réalisé de manière intimidante, irrespectueuse, menaçante ou insultante, en raison de son sexe, de son genre ou de son orientation sexuelle.".
No misspelling variants are generated for harcèlement de plage 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 harcèlement de plage, spelled H-A-R-C-È-L-E-M-E-N-T- -D-E- -P-L-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Comportement d’interpellation d’une personne à la plage réalisé de manière intimidante, irrespectueuse, menaçante ou insultante, en raison de son sexe, de son genre ou de son orientation sexuelle.
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- The one correct French spelling is H-A-R-C-È-L-E-M-E-N-T- -D-E- -P-L-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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