plafond de verre

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for plafond de verre is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pla.fɔ̃ də vɛʁ\. 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: "Barrière invisible et informelle qui empêche les femmes, ou plus largement les personnes issues de groupes minorisés, d’accéder aux postes les plus élevés dans la hiérarchie professionnelle, malgré...".

No misspelling variants are generated for plafond de verre 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 plafond de verre, spelled P-L-A-F-O-N-D- -D-E- -V-E-R-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.