premier ministre

/\pʁə.mje mi.nistʁ\/ noun

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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similar word pairs

premier ministre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Titre du chef de gouvernement dans divers pays ou provinces, parmi lesquels le Royaume-Uni, la France (depuis 1959), la Belgique, l’Inde, le Canada et ses provinces, l’Italie, le Japon, etc. Pronounced \pʁə.mje mi.nistʁ\.

Key facts for premier ministre
PropertyValue
Headwordpremier ministre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pʁə.mje mi.nistʁ\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

premier ministre is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for premier ministre is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁə.mje mi.nistʁ\. 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: "Titre du chef de gouvernement dans divers pays ou provinces, parmi lesquels le Royaume-Uni, la France (depuis 1959), la Belgique, l’Inde, le Canada et ses provinces, l’Italie, le Japon, etc.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for premier ministre in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 premier ministre, spelled P-R-E-M-I-E-R- -M-I-N-I-S-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Titre du chef de gouvernement dans divers pays ou provinces, parmi lesquels le Royaume-Uni, la France (depuis 1959), la Belgique, l’Inde, le Canada et ses provinces, l’Italie, le Japon, etc.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "premier ministre"?
"premier ministre" is spelled P-R-E-M-I-E-R- -M-I-N-I-S-T-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁə.mje mi.nistʁ\.
What does "premier ministre" mean?
As a noun, "premier ministre" means: Titre du chef de gouvernement dans divers pays ou provinces, parmi lesquels le Royaume-Uni, la France (depuis 1959), la Belgique, l’Inde, le Canada et ses provinces, l’Italie, le Japon, etc.
How do you pronounce "premier ministre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "premier ministre" is \pʁə.mje mi.nistʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "premier ministre" come from?
"premier ministre" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.