principe de réalité

/\pʁɛ̃.sip də ʁe.a.li.te\/ noun

The verdict

“principe de réalité” 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
19
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Limite de la pulsion, du désir.

Key facts for principe de réalité
PropertyValue
Headwordprincipe de réalité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pʁɛ̃.sip də ʁe.a.li.te\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “principe de réalité” sits in French frequency

principe de réalité 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 principe de réalité is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɛ̃.sip də ʁe.a.li.te\. 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: "Limite de la pulsion, du désir.".

No misspelling variants are generated for principe de réalité 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 principe de réalité, spelled P-R-I-N-C-I-P-E- -D-E- -R-É-A-L-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Limite de la pulsion, du désir.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "principe de réalité"?
"principe de réalité" is spelled P-R-I-N-C-I-P-E- -D-E- -R-É-A-L-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɛ̃.sip də ʁe.a.li.te\.
What does "principe de réalité" mean?
As a noun, "principe de réalité" means: Limite de la pulsion, du désir.
How do you pronounce "principe de réalité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "principe de réalité" is \pʁɛ̃.sip də ʁe.a.li.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "principe de réalité" come from?
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Using “principe de réalité”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is P-R-I-N-C-I-P-E- -D-E- -R-É-A-L-I-T-É — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \pʁɛ̃.sip də ʁe.a.li.te\ (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.