harcèlement moral
\aʁ.sɛl.mɑ̃ mɔ.ʁal\
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...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | harcèlement moral |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.sɛl.mɑ̃ mɔ.ʁal\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “harcèlement moral” sits in French frequency
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
- 1Agissements 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.
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- 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.
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