jeu de caractères
The verdict
“jeu de caractères” 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
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Transcription avec représentation numérique des caractères des langues naturelles.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jeu de caractères |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒø də ka.ʁak.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jeu de caractères” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jeu de caractères is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒø də ka.ʁak.tɛʁ\. 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: "Transcription avec représentation numérique des caractères des langues naturelles.".
No misspelling variants are generated for jeu de caractères 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 jeu de caractères, spelled J-E-U- -D-E- -C-A-R-A-C-T-È-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Transcription avec représentation numérique des caractères des langues naturelles.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is J-E-U- -D-E- -C-A-R-A-C-T-È-R-E-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʒø də ka.ʁak.tɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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