première classe
\pʁə.mjɛʁ klas\
The verdict
“première classe” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom que l’on donne aux sièges, aux compartiments, aux zones, aux cabines, etc. les plus confortables d’un moyen de transport.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | première classe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁə.mjɛʁ klas\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “première classe” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for première classe is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁə.mjɛʁ klas\. 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: "Nom que l’on donne aux sièges, aux compartiments, aux zones, aux cabines, etc. les plus confortables d’un moyen de transport.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for première classe, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is première classe, spelled P-R-E-M-I-È-R-E- -C-L-A-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Nom que l’on donne aux sièges, aux compartiments, aux zones, aux cabines, etc. les plus confortables d’un moyen de transport.
This word in other languages
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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Using “première classe”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-R-E-M-I-È-R-E- -C-L-A-S-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.