personne de confiance

/\pɛʁ.sɔn də kɔ̃.fjɑ̃s\/ noun

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21 characters

Language

French

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personne de confiance is aFrenchnoun. It means: Personne que l’on juge digne de confiance de par sa intégrité morale ou sa loyauté, à qui l’on peut se fier. Pronounced \pɛʁ.sɔn də kɔ̃.fjɑ̃s\.

Key facts for personne de confiance
PropertyValue
Headwordpersonne de confiance
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɛʁ.sɔn də kɔ̃.fjɑ̃s\
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

personne de confiance is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for personne de confiance is 21 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛʁ.sɔn də kɔ̃.fjɑ̃s\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for personne de confiance in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 personne de confiance, spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-N-E- -D-E- -C-O-N-F-I-A-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personne que l’on juge digne de confiance de par sa intégrité morale ou sa loyauté, à qui l’on peut se fier.
  2. 2
    Tiers choisi par une patient pour l’accompagner dans ses démarches et rendez-vous médicaux, l’aider à la prise de décisions de santé, et représenter ses volontés auprès de l’équipe soignante en cas d’incapacité à s’exprimer (ex: coma ou démence). Ce tiers peut aussi être dépositaire des directives anticipées.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "personne de confiance"?
"personne de confiance" is spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-N-E- -D-E- -C-O-N-F-I-A-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pɛʁ.sɔn də kɔ̃.fjɑ̃s\.
What does "personne de confiance" mean?
As a noun, "personne de confiance" means: Personne que l’on juge digne de confiance de par sa intégrité morale ou sa loyauté, à qui l’on peut se fier.
How do you pronounce "personne de confiance"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "personne de confiance" is \pɛʁ.sɔn də kɔ̃.fjɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "personne de confiance" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.