personne de confiance
\pɛʁ.sɔn də kɔ̃.fjɑ̃s\
The verdict
“personne de confiance” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Personne que l’on juge digne de confiance de par sa intégrité morale ou sa loyauté, à qui l’on peut se fier.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | personne de confiance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.sɔn də kɔ̃.fjɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “personne de confiance” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
personne de confiance is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛʁ.sɔn də kɔ̃.fjɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
personne de confiance has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. 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.
Definition
- 1Personne que l’on juge digne de confiance de par sa intégrité morale ou sa loyauté, à qui l’on peut se fier.
- 2Tiers 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.
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 “personne de confiance”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-E-R-S-O-N-N-E- -D-E- -C-O-N-F-I-A-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.