premier-né
\pʁə.mje.ne\
The verdict
“premier-né” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Premier enfant né dans une fratrie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-premier-ne · premier-né · French
premier-né · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | premier-né |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁə.mje.ne\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
premier-né is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁə.mje.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Premier enfant né dans une fratrie.".
No misspelling variants are generated for premier-né in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is premier-né, spelled P-R-E-M-I-E-R---N-É.
Definition
- 1Premier enfant né dans une fratrie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how premier-né appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était l’heure où une jeune Indienne qui vient d’être mère se réveille en sursaut au milieu de la nuit, car elle a cru entendre les cris de son premier-né, qui lui demande la douce nourriture.
…et la nuit s’était écoulée ainsi, […] la pauvre mère agenouillée sur le seuil de cette chambre dont l’entrée lui était interdite, pleurant silencieusement sur son premier-né qui, elle en avait le pressentiment terrible, allait lui être ravi pour toujours.
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.