premiers secours

\pʁə.mje sə.kuʁ\

/\pʁə.mje sə.kuʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“premiers secours” 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
16
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Soins prodigués en urgence permettant au blessé d’attendre des soins plus complets.

Key facts for premiers secours
PropertyValue
Headwordpremiers secours
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pʁə.mje sə.kuʁ\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “premiers secours” sits in French frequency

premiers secours falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for premiers secours is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁə.mje sə.kuʁ\. 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: "Soins prodigués en urgence permettant au blessé d’attendre des soins plus complets.".

No misspelling variants are generated for premiers secours 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 premiers secours, spelled P-R-E-M-I-E-R-S- -S-E-C-O-U-R-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Soins prodigués en urgence permettant au blessé d’attendre des soins plus complets.

This word in other languages

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "premiers secours"?
"premiers secours" is spelled P-R-E-M-I-E-R-S- -S-E-C-O-U-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁə.mje sə.kuʁ\.
What does "premiers secours" mean?
As a noun, "premiers secours" means: Soins prodigués en urgence permettant au blessé d’attendre des soins plus complets.
How do you pronounce "premiers secours"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "premiers secours" is \pʁə.mje sə.kuʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "premiers secours" come from?
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Using “premiers secours”

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-S- -S-E-C-O-U-R-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \pʁə.mje sə.kuʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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