prise de position

/\pʁiz də po.zi.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

17 characters

Language

French

word origin

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prise de position is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de prendre position, de professer son avis ou son opinion. Pronounced \pʁiz də po.zi.sjɔ̃\.

Key facts for prise de position
PropertyValue
Headwordprise de position
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pʁiz də po.zi.sjɔ̃\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

prise de position is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for prise de position is 17 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁiz də po.zi.sjɔ̃\. 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: "Action de prendre position, de professer son avis ou son opinion.".

No misspelling variants are generated for prise de position 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 position, spelled P-R-I-S-E- -D-E- -P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de prendre position, de professer son avis ou son opinion.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prise de position"?
"prise de position" is spelled P-R-I-S-E- -D-E- -P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁiz də po.zi.sjɔ̃\.
What does "prise de position" mean?
As a noun, "prise de position" means: Action de prendre position, de professer son avis ou son opinion.
How do you pronounce "prise de position"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "prise de position" is \pʁiz də po.zi.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "prise de position" come from?
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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.