position du missionnaire
\po.zi.sjɔ̃ dy mi.sjɔ.nɛʁ\
The verdict
“position du missionnaire” 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
- 24
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Position sexuelle où un des deux partenaires est couché sur le dos, cuisses écartées, tandis que l'autre s’allonge sur lui.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | position du missionnaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \po.zi.sjɔ̃ dy mi.sjɔ.nɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “position du missionnaire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for position du missionnaire is 24 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \po.zi.sjɔ̃ dy mi.sjɔ.nɛʁ\. 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: "Position sexuelle où un des deux partenaires est couché sur le dos, cuisses écartées, tandis que l'autre s’allonge sur lui.".
No misspelling variants are generated for position du missionnaire 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 position du missionnaire, spelled P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N- -D-U- -M-I-S-S-I-O-N-N-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Position sexuelle où un des deux partenaires est couché sur le dos, cuisses écartées, tandis que l'autre s’allonge sur lui.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N- -D-U- -M-I-S-S-I-O-N-N-A-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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