harcèlement de rue
^((h aspiré))\aʁ.sɛl.mɑ̃ də ʁy\
The verdict
“harcèlement de rue” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Comportement d’interpellation d’une personne dans l’espace public réalisé de manière intimidante, irrespectueuse, menaçante ou insultante, en raison de son sexe, de son genre ou de son orientation ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | harcèlement de rue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\aʁ.sɛl.mɑ̃ də ʁy\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “harcèlement de rue” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for harcèlement de rue is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h aspiré))\aʁ.sɛl.mɑ̃ də ʁy\. 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 dans l’espace public réalisé de manière intimidante, irrespectueuse, menaçante ou insultante, en raison de son sexe, de son genre ou de son orientation ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for harcèlement de rue 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 rue, spelled H-A-R-C-È-L-E-M-E-N-T- -D-E- -R-U-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 dans l’espace public 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- -R-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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