local de rétention administrative
\lɔ.kal də ʁe.tɑ̃.sjɔ̃ ad.mi.nis.tʁa.tiv\
The verdict
“local de rétention administrative” 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
- 33
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Lieu d’enfermement où sont retenues temporairement les personnes étrangères auxquelles l'administration ne reconnaît pas le droit de séjourner sur le territoire qu'elle gère et pour qui il est impo...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | local de rétention administrative |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɔ.kal də ʁe.tɑ̃.sjɔ̃ ad.mi.nis.tʁa.tiv\ |
| Letters | 33 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “local de rétention administrative” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for local de rétention administrative is 33 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɔ.kal də ʁe.tɑ̃.sjɔ̃ ad.mi.nis.tʁa.tiv\. 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: "Lieu d’enfermement où sont retenues temporairement les personnes étrangères auxquelles l'administration ne reconnaît pas le droit de séjourner sur le territoire qu'elle gère et pour qui il est impo...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for local de rétention administrative, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is local de rétention administrative, spelled L-O-C-A-L- -D-E- -R-É-T-E-N-T-I-O-N- -A-D-M-I-N-I-S-T-R-A-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Lieu d’enfermement où sont retenues temporairement les personnes étrangères auxquelles l'administration ne reconnaît pas le droit de séjourner sur le territoire qu'elle gère et pour qui il est impossible d'être immédiatement placée dans un centre de rétention administrative.
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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- The one correct French spelling is L-O-C-A-L- -D-E- -R-É-T-E-N-T-I-O-N- -A-D-M-I-N-I-S-T-R-A-T-I-V-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \lɔ.kal də ʁe.tɑ̃.sjɔ̃ ad.mi.nis.tʁa.tiv\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.