perdre conscience
\pɛʁdʁ kɔ̃.sjɑ̃s\
The verdict
“perdre conscience” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - S’évanouir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perdre conscience |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛʁdʁ kɔ̃.sjɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “perdre conscience” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for perdre conscience is 17 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛʁdʁ kɔ̃.sjɑ̃s\. 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: "S’évanouir.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for perdre conscience, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is perdre conscience, spelled P-E-R-D-R-E- -C-O-N-S-C-I-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1S’évanouir.
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 “perdre conscience”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-E-R-D-R-E- -C-O-N-S-C-I-E-N-C-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.