palais des congrès

/\pa.lɛ de kɔ̃.ɡʁɛ\/ noun

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.

Key facts for palais des congrès
PropertyValue
Headwordpalais des congrès
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pa.lɛ de kɔ̃.ɡʁɛ\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “palais des congrès” sits in French frequency

palais des congrès falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Bâtiment de grande dimension, construit par l’État ou par une collectivité publique, permettant d’y organiser des congrès.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "palais des congrès"?
"palais des congrès" is spelled P-A-L-A-I-S- -D-E-S- -C-O-N-G-R-È-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pa.lɛ de kɔ̃.ɡʁɛ\.
What does "palais des congrès" mean?
As a noun, "palais des congrès" means: Bâtiment de grande dimension, construit par l’État ou par une collectivité publique, permettant d’y organiser des congrès.
How do you pronounce "palais des congrès"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "palais des congrès" is \pa.lɛ de kɔ̃.ɡʁɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "palais des congrès" come from?
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Using “palais des congrès”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • 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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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.