prise de courant
The verdict
“prise de courant” 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
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Connecteur femelle permettant de relier un appareil au courant électrique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prise de courant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁiz də ku.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “prise de courant” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for prise de courant is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁiz də ku.ʁɑ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for prise de courant 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 prise de courant, spelled P-R-I-S-E- -D-E- -C-O-U-R-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Connecteur femelle permettant de relier un appareil au courant électrique.
- 2Connecteur mâle terminant le cordon d'alimentation d'un appareil et servant à le raccorder au réseau électrique.
- 3Mécanisme d’alimentation en courant électrique d’une tractrice, d’un tramway ou d’un trolleybus.
- 4Prise d’eau.
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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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- The one correct French spelling is P-R-I-S-E- -D-E- -C-O-U-R-A-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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