pause méridienne
\poz me.ʁi.djɛn\
The verdict
“pause méridienne” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pause dans les activités journalières prise autour de midi afin de se restaurer et se détendre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pause méridienne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \poz me.ʁi.djɛn\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pause méridienne” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pause méridienne is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \poz me.ʁi.djɛn\. 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: "Pause dans les activités journalières prise autour de midi afin de se restaurer et se détendre.".
Zero misspellings are on record for pause méridienne in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pause méridienne, spelled P-A-U-S-E- -M-É-R-I-D-I-E-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Pause dans les activités journalières prise autour de midi afin de se restaurer et se détendre.
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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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Using “pause méridienne”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-A-U-S-E- -M-É-R-I-D-I-E-N-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.