palais des congrès
The verdict
“palais des congrès” 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
- 18
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Bâtiment de grande dimension, construit par l’État ou par une collectivité publique, permettant d’y organiser des congrès.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palais des congrès |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.lɛ de kɔ̃.ɡʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “palais des congrès” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for palais des congrès is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.lɛ de kɔ̃.ɡʁɛ\. 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: "Bâtiment de grande dimension, construit par l’État ou par une collectivité publique, permettant d’y organiser des congrès.".
No misspelling variants are generated for palais des congrès 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 palais des congrès, spelled P-A-L-A-I-S- -D-E-S- -C-O-N-G-R-È-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bâtiment de grande dimension, construit par l’État ou par une collectivité publique, permettant d’y organiser des congrès.
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Using “palais des congrès”
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- The one correct French spelling is P-A-L-A-I-S- -D-E-S- -C-O-N-G-R-È-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pa.lɛ de kɔ̃.ɡʁɛ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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