permis de construire
The verdict
“permis de construire” 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
- 20
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Document officiel qui autorise la construction ou la rénovation d’un bâtiment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | permis de construire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.mi də kɔ̃s.tʁɥiʁ\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “permis de construire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for permis de construire is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛʁ.mi də kɔ̃s.tʁɥiʁ\. 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: "Document officiel qui autorise la construction ou la rénovation d’un bâtiment.".
No misspelling variants are generated for permis de construire 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 permis de construire, spelled P-E-R-M-I-S- -D-E- -C-O-N-S-T-R-U-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Document officiel qui autorise la construction ou la rénovation d’un bâtiment.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-E-R-M-I-S- -D-E- -C-O-N-S-T-R-U-I-R-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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