nom de baptême
The verdict
“nom de baptême” 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
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Prénom donné à une personne lorsqu’elle se fait baptiser.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nom de baptême |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɔ̃ də ba.tɛm\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “nom de baptême” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for nom de baptême is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nɔ̃ də ba.tɛm\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for nom de baptême 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 nom de baptême, spelled N-O-M- -D-E- -B-A-P-T-Ê-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Prénom donné à une personne lorsqu’elle se fait baptiser.
- 2Prénom donné à un enfant après sa naissance et souvent avant son baptême chrétien.
- 3Nom personnel.
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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.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is N-O-M- -D-E- -B-A-P-T-Ê-M-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \nɔ̃ də ba.tɛm\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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