période d’essai
\pe.ʁjɔd d‿ɛ.sɛ\
The verdict
“période d’essai” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Laps de temps qui peut être prévu au début d’un contrat de travail, pour permettre à l’employeur d’éprouver les aptitudes professionnelles du salarié ou au nouvel employé de s’assurer que la foncti...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | période d’essai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.ʁjɔd d‿ɛ.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “période d’essai” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for période d’essai is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pe.ʁjɔd d‿ɛ.sɛ\. 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: "Laps de temps qui peut être prévu au début d’un contrat de travail, pour permettre à l’employeur d’éprouver les aptitudes professionnelles du salarié ou au nouvel employé de s’assurer que la foncti...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for période d’essai, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is période d’essai, spelled P-É-R-I-O-D-E- -D-’-E-S-S-A-I.
Definition
- 1Laps de temps qui peut être prévu au début d’un contrat de travail, pour permettre à l’employeur d’éprouver les aptitudes professionnelles du salarié ou au nouvel employé de s’assurer que la fonction le satisfait. — (Wikipédia)
This word in other languages
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 “période d’essai”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-É-R-I-O-D-E- -D-’-E-S-S-A-I - 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.