harcèlement moral

\aʁ.sɛl.mɑ̃ mɔ.ʁal\

/\aʁ.sɛl.mɑ̃ mɔ.ʁal\/ noun

The verdict

“harcèlement moral” 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
17
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Agissements répétés ayant pour objectif ou effet une dégradation des conditions de travail susceptible de porter atteinte aux droits et à la dignité de la personne visée, d’altérer sa santé physiqu...

Key facts for harcèlement moral
PropertyValue
Headwordharcèlement moral
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\aʁ.sɛl.mɑ̃ mɔ.ʁal\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “harcèlement moral” sits in French frequency

harcèlement moral falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for harcèlement moral is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \aʁ.sɛl.mɑ̃ mɔ.ʁal\. 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: "Agissements répétés ayant pour objectif ou effet une dégradation des conditions de travail susceptible de porter atteinte aux droits et à la dignité de la personne visée, d’altérer sa santé physiqu...".

No misspelling variants are generated for harcèlement moral 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 moral, spelled H-A-R-C-È-L-E-M-E-N-T- -M-O-R-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Agissements répétés ayant pour objectif ou effet une dégradation des conditions de travail susceptible de porter atteinte aux droits et à la dignité de la personne visée, d’altérer sa santé physique ou mentale voire de compromettre son avenir professionnel ou scolaire.

Synonyms

harcèlement psychologique

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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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "harcèlement moral"?
"harcèlement moral" is spelled H-A-R-C-È-L-E-M-E-N-T- -M-O-R-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is \aʁ.sɛl.mɑ̃ mɔ.ʁal\.
What does "harcèlement moral" mean?
As a noun, "harcèlement moral" means: Agissements répétés ayant pour objectif ou effet une dégradation des conditions de travail susceptible de porter atteinte aux droits et à la dignité de la personne visée, d’altérer sa santé physiqu...
How do you pronounce "harcèlement moral"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "harcèlement moral" is \aʁ.sɛl.mɑ̃ mɔ.ʁal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “harcèlement moral”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is H-A-R-C-È-L-E-M-E-N-T- -M-O-R-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \aʁ.sɛl.mɑ̃ mɔ.ʁal\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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