prendre congé
\pʁɑ̃.dʁə kɔ̃.ʒe\
The verdict
“prendre congé” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Faire les adieux qu’exige la politesse avant de partir, se retirer.
| 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) |
Where “prendre congé” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for prendre congé is 13 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɑ̃.dʁə kɔ̃.ʒe\. 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: "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.
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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.
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Using “prendre congé”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -C-O-N-G-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pʁɑ̃.dʁə kɔ̃.ʒe\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.