peine accessoire
\pɛ.n‿ak.se.swaʁ\
The verdict
“peine accessoire” 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) — Peine dont l’application est une conséquence directe de la peine principale, que cette peine soit ou non prononcée par le juge.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peine accessoire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛ.n‿ak.se.swaʁ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “peine accessoire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for peine accessoire is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛ.n‿ak.se.swaʁ\. 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: "Peine dont l’application est une conséquence directe de la peine principale, que cette peine soit ou non prononcée par le juge.".
No misspelling variants are generated for peine accessoire 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 peine accessoire, spelled P-E-I-N-E- -A-C-C-E-S-S-O-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Peine dont l’application est une conséquence directe de la peine principale, que cette peine soit ou non prononcée par le juge.
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 one correct French spelling is P-E-I-N-E- -A-C-C-E-S-S-O-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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