prise de notes
\pʁiz də nɔt\
The verdict
“prise de notes” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Fait de prendre des notes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prise de notes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁiz də nɔt\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “prise de notes” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for prise de notes is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁiz də nɔt\. 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: "Fait de prendre des notes.".
No misspelling variants are generated for prise de notes 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 notes, spelled P-R-I-S-E- -D-E- -N-O-T-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fait de prendre des notes.
This word in other languages
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- The one correct French spelling is P-R-I-S-E- -D-E- -N-O-T-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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