libre-échange
\li.bʁe.ʃɑ̃ʒ\
The verdict
“libre-échange” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Système d’après lequel les transactions commerciales entre les nations doivent être affranchies de prohibitions et de taxes élevées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-libre-echange · libre-échange · French
libre-échange · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | libre-échange |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.bʁe.ʃɑ̃ʒ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
libre-échange is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \li.bʁe.ʃɑ̃ʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
libre-échange has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is libre-échange, spelled L-I-B-R-E---É-C-H-A-N-G-E.
Definition
- 1Système d’après lequel les transactions commerciales entre les nations doivent être affranchies de prohibitions et de taxes élevées.
- 2Système dans lequel aucun frein n’empêche la circulation d’une chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how libre-échange appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au cœur du modèle néolibéral, le libre-échange sans précaution a accru le phénomène des délocalisations.
Son gouvernement est divisé entre les partisans d’un maintien dans une union douanière et d’un alignement réglementaire avec l’Europe, et les avocats d’une rupture nette qui rendrait possible la négociation en solo d’accords de libre-échange qu’ils présentent comme mirifiques.
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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.