phrase secrète
\fʁɑz sə.kʁɛt\
The verdict
“phrase secrète” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Phrase préalablement convenue, tenant lieu de code secret confidentiel.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | phrase secrète |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁɑz sə.kʁɛt\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “phrase secrète” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for phrase secrète is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fʁɑz sə.kʁɛt\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for phrase secrète, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is phrase secrète, spelled P-H-R-A-S-E- -S-E-C-R-È-T-E.
Definition
- 1Phrase préalablement convenue, tenant lieu de code secret confidentiel.
- 2Phrase préalablement convenue, tenant lieu de code secret confidentiel.
- 3Phrase préalablement convenue, tenant lieu de code secret confidentiel.
- 4Phrase préalablement convenue, tenant lieu de code secret confidentiel.
- 5Phrase utilisée comme mot de passe dans un système informatique, par exemple dans l’authentification ou le chiffrement.
- 6Phrase dissimulée, ou au sens caché.
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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 “phrase secrète”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-H-R-A-S-E- -S-E-C-R-È-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fʁɑz sə.kʁɛt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.