prise de terre
\pʁiz də tɛʁ\
The verdict
“prise de terre” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie d’un réseau électrique connecté à la Terre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prise-de-terre · prise de terre · French
prise de terre · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prise de terre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁiz də tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prise de terre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prise de terre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁiz də tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partie d’un réseau électrique connecté à la Terre.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for prise de terre, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is prise de terre, spelled P-R-I-S-E- -D-E- -T-E-R-R-E.
Definition
- 1Partie d’un réseau électrique connecté à la Terre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how prise de terre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour réaliser une « prise de terre », on ne plante pas simplement un câble dans la terre. On le relie à une plaque de cuivre, par exemple, que l’on enfonce assez profondément dans le sol, pour qu’elle soit en contact avec des couches humides afin de diminuer la valeur de la résistance Rₒ : l’eau étant conductrice.
This word in other languages
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.