maison de correction

/\mɛ.zɔ̃ də kɔ.ʁɛk.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

20 characters

Language

French

word origin

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maison de correction is aFrenchnoun. It means: Lieu où l’on enferme les enfants mineurs qui doivent subir un emprisonnement ou dont on veut réformer le caractère indiscipliné. Pronounced \mɛ.zɔ̃ də kɔ.ʁɛk.sjɔ̃\.

Key facts for maison de correction
PropertyValue
Headwordmaison de correction
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mɛ.zɔ̃ də kɔ.ʁɛk.sjɔ̃\
Letters20
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

maison de correction is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for maison de correction is 20 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛ.zɔ̃ də kɔ.ʁɛk.sjɔ̃\. 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 où l’on enferme les enfants mineurs qui doivent subir un emprisonnement ou dont on veut réformer le caractère indiscipliné.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for maison de correction in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 maison de correction, spelled M-A-I-S-O-N- -D-E- -C-O-R-R-E-C-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Lieu où l’on enferme les enfants mineurs qui doivent subir un emprisonnement ou dont on veut réformer le caractère indiscipliné.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "maison de correction"?
"maison de correction" is spelled M-A-I-S-O-N- -D-E- -C-O-R-R-E-C-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \mɛ.zɔ̃ də kɔ.ʁɛk.sjɔ̃\.
What does "maison de correction" mean?
As a noun, "maison de correction" means: Lieu où l’on enferme les enfants mineurs qui doivent subir un emprisonnement ou dont on veut réformer le caractère indiscipliné.
How do you pronounce "maison de correction"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "maison de correction" is \mɛ.zɔ̃ də kɔ.ʁɛk.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "maison de correction" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.