perte de fonction
The verdict
“perte de fonction” 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
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Inactivation d'une fonction d'une cellule par l'intermédiaire d'une mutation de sa structure moléculaire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perte de fonction |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁt də fɔ̃k.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “perte de fonction” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for perte de fonction is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛʁt də fɔ̃k.sjɔ̃\. 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: "Inactivation d'une fonction d'une cellule par l'intermédiaire d'une mutation de sa structure moléculaire.".
No misspelling variants are generated for perte de fonction 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 perte de fonction, spelled P-E-R-T-E- -D-E- -F-O-N-C-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Inactivation d'une fonction d'une cellule par l'intermédiaire d'une mutation de sa structure moléculaire.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-E-R-T-E- -D-E- -F-O-N-C-T-I-O-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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