navire-école
\na.viʁ.e.kɔl\
The verdict
“navire-école” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Navire affecté à la formation des marins.
Corpus desk
Index FR-navire-ecole · navire-école · French
navire-école · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "N" 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 | navire-école |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \na.viʁ.e.kɔl\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
navire-école is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \na.viʁ.e.kɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Navire affecté à la formation des marins.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for navire-école, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is navire-école, spelled N-A-V-I-R-E---É-C-O-L-E.
Definition
- 1Navire affecté à la formation des marins.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how navire-école appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le plus célèbre navire-école de la marine marchande belge, après avoir fait seize fois le tour du monde, est devenu un musée flottant. Mais il pourrait repartir.
Au lieu d'avoir des navires-écoles , on pourrait peut-être offrir une prime aux armateurs de navires à voile qui consentiraient à prendre des élèves marins.
Synonyms
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.