obsolescence programmée

/\ɔp.sɔ.le.sɑ̃s pʁɔ.ɡʁa.me\/ noun

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Language

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obsolescence programmée is aFrenchnoun. It means: Fait de créer un bien de façon à ce qu’il devienne inutilisable, ou simplement suranné, au bout d’un certain temps, pour obliger à l’achat d’un nouveau. Pronounced \ɔp.sɔ.le.sɑ̃s pʁɔ.ɡʁa.me\.

Key facts for obsolescence programmée
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Headwordobsolescence programmée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɔp.sɔ.le.sɑ̃s pʁɔ.ɡʁa.me\
Letters23
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for obsolescence programmée is 23 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔp.sɔ.le.sɑ̃s pʁɔ.ɡʁa.me\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for obsolescence programmée 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 obsolescence programmée, spelled O-B-S-O-L-E-S-C-E-N-C-E- -P-R-O-G-R-A-M-M-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fait de créer un bien de façon à ce qu’il devienne inutilisable, ou simplement suranné, au bout d’un certain temps, pour obliger à l’achat d’un nouveau.
  2. 2
    État d’une personne ou d’une chose devenue inutile par l’apparition d’une nouvelle technologie pouvant la remplacer.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "obsolescence programmée"?
"obsolescence programmée" is spelled O-B-S-O-L-E-S-C-E-N-C-E- -P-R-O-G-R-A-M-M-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔp.sɔ.le.sɑ̃s pʁɔ.ɡʁa.me\.
What does "obsolescence programmée" mean?
As a noun, "obsolescence programmée" means: Fait de créer un bien de façon à ce qu’il devienne inutilisable, ou simplement suranné, au bout d’un certain temps, pour obliger à l’achat d’un nouveau.
How do you pronounce "obsolescence programmée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "obsolescence programmée" is \ɔp.sɔ.le.sɑ̃s pʁɔ.ɡʁa.me\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: 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.