première pierre
The verdict
“première pierre” 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
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Pierre posée au début de l’édification d’un bâtiment, lors d’une cérémonie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | première pierre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁə.mjɛʁ pjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “première pierre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for première pierre is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁə.mjɛʁ pjɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for première pierre in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 première pierre, spelled P-R-E-M-I-È-R-E- -P-I-E-R-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pierre posée au début de l’édification d’un bâtiment, lors d’une cérémonie.
- 2Base ; fondement.
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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-È-R-E- -P-I-E-R-R-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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