premier étage
\pʁə.mjɛ.ʁ‿e.taʒ\
The verdict
“premier étage” 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Étage d’un bâtiment situé au-dessus du rez-de-chaussée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | premier étage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁə.mjɛ.ʁ‿e.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “premier étage” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for premier étage is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁə.mjɛ.ʁ‿e.taʒ\. 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: "Étage d’un bâtiment situé au-dessus du rez-de-chaussée.".
Zero misspellings are on record for premier étage in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is premier étage, spelled P-R-E-M-I-E-R- -É-T-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Étage d’un bâtiment situé au-dessus du rez-de-chaussée.
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 practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-R-E-M-I-E-R- -É-T-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pʁə.mjɛ.ʁ‿e.taʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
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.