prendre congé
\pʁɑ̃.dʁə kɔ̃.ʒe\
The verdict
“prendre congé” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire les adieux qu’exige la politesse avant de partir, se retirer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prendre-conge · prendre congé · French
prendre congé · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 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 | prendre congé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɑ̃.dʁə kɔ̃.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
prendre congé is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁɑ̃.dʁə kɔ̃.ʒe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Faire les adieux qu’exige la politesse avant de partir, se retirer.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for prendre congé, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is prendre congé, spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -C-O-N-G-É.
Definition
- 1Faire les adieux qu’exige la politesse avant de partir, se retirer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prendre congé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quelle peine n'éprouvera-t-il pas lorsqu'on lui dira : Monsieur un tel, votre maladie est mortelle ; il conviendrait que vous reçussiez les sacremens, que vous vous unissiez à Dieu, et que vous prissiez congé de ce monde. Prendre congé de ce monde?
Le Valdemar devait pousser son voyage de circumnavigation jusqu’à Seidisfiord, station située sur la côte orientale de l’Islande ; mais comme je caressais toujours l’idée de gagner Reykjavík par terre en franchissant le désert du Stórisandr, le moment était venu de prendre congé du capitaine Kihl et de mes compagnons de traversée.
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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.