petite bourgeoisie

/\pə.tit buʁ.ʒwa.zi\/ noun

Letters

18 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

petite bourgeoisie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Classe sociale intermédiaire entre la bourgeoisie et le prolétariat. Pronounced \pə.tit buʁ.ʒwa.zi\.

Key facts for petite bourgeoisie
PropertyValue
Headwordpetite bourgeoisie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pə.tit buʁ.ʒwa.zi\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

petite bourgeoisie 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 petite bourgeoisie is 18 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pə.tit buʁ.ʒwa.zi\. 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: "Classe sociale intermédiaire entre la bourgeoisie et le prolétariat.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for petite bourgeoisie 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 petite bourgeoisie, spelled P-E-T-I-T-E- -B-O-U-R-G-E-O-I-S-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Classe sociale intermédiaire entre la bourgeoisie et le prolétariat.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "petite bourgeoisie"?
"petite bourgeoisie" is spelled P-E-T-I-T-E- -B-O-U-R-G-E-O-I-S-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pə.tit buʁ.ʒwa.zi\.
What does "petite bourgeoisie" mean?
As a noun, "petite bourgeoisie" means: Classe sociale intermédiaire entre la bourgeoisie et le prolétariat.
How do you pronounce "petite bourgeoisie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "petite bourgeoisie" is \pə.tit buʁ.ʒwa.zi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "petite bourgeoisie" 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.