politiquement incorrect
\po.li.tik.mɑ̃ ɛ̃.kɔ.ʁɛkt\
The verdict
“politiquement incorrect” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui n’est pas politiquement correct.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | politiquement incorrect |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \po.li.tik.mɑ̃ ɛ̃.kɔ.ʁɛkt\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “politiquement incorrect” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for politiquement incorrect is 23 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \po.li.tik.mɑ̃ ɛ̃.kɔ.ʁɛkt\. 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: "Qui n’est pas politiquement correct.".
No misspelling variants are generated for politiquement incorrect 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 politiquement incorrect, spelled P-O-L-I-T-I-Q-U-E-M-E-N-T- -I-N-C-O-R-R-E-C-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui n’est pas politiquement correct.
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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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- The one correct French spelling is P-O-L-I-T-I-Q-U-E-M-E-N-T- -I-N-C-O-R-R-E-C-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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