préfet de discipline
\pʁe.fɛ də di.si.plin\
The verdict
“préfet de discipline” 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
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dans les écoles religieuses, personne chargée de la surveillance des études et des questions de discipline.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | préfet de discipline |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁe.fɛ də di.si.plin\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “préfet de discipline” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for préfet de discipline is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁe.fɛ də di.si.plin\. 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: "Dans les écoles religieuses, personne chargée de la surveillance des études et des questions de discipline.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for préfet de discipline, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is préfet de discipline, spelled P-R-É-F-E-T- -D-E- -D-I-S-C-I-P-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Dans les écoles religieuses, personne chargée de la surveillance des études et des questions de discipline.
Synonyms
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-R-É-F-E-T- -D-E- -D-I-S-C-I-P-L-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.