piqûre de rappel

/\pi.kyʁ də ʁa.pɛl\/ noun

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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piqûre de rappel is aFrenchnoun. It means: Injection d’un vaccin, déjà reçu antérieurement par le patient, pour optimiser ses défenses immunitaires en stimulant la production d’anticorps. Pronounced \pi.kyʁ də ʁa.pɛl\.

Key facts for piqûre de rappel
PropertyValue
Headwordpiqûre de rappel
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pi.kyʁ də ʁa.pɛl\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

piqûre de rappel 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 piqûre de rappel is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pi.kyʁ də ʁa.pɛl\. 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 piqûre de rappel 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 piqûre de rappel, spelled P-I-Q-Û-R-E- -D-E- -R-A-P-P-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Injection d’un vaccin, déjà reçu antérieurement par le patient, pour optimiser ses défenses immunitaires en stimulant la production d’anticorps.
  2. 2
    Acte amical ou non, destiné à rappeler à quelqu’un ce qu’il doit faire ou arrêter de faire.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "piqûre de rappel"?
"piqûre de rappel" is spelled P-I-Q-Û-R-E- -D-E- -R-A-P-P-E-L. The IPA pronunciation is \pi.kyʁ də ʁa.pɛl\.
What does "piqûre de rappel" mean?
As a noun, "piqûre de rappel" means: Injection d’un vaccin, déjà reçu antérieurement par le patient, pour optimiser ses défenses immunitaires en stimulant la production d’anticorps.
How do you pronounce "piqûre de rappel"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "piqûre de rappel" is \pi.kyʁ də ʁa.pɛl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "piqûre de rappel" 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.