prise en charge

/\pʁi.z‿ɑ̃ ʃaʁʒ\/ noun

Letters

15 characters

Language

French

word origin

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prise en charge is aFrenchnoun. It means: Acte de prendre sous sa responsabilité une personne ou un objet. Pronounced \pʁi.z‿ɑ̃ ʃaʁʒ\.

Key facts for prise en charge
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Headwordprise en charge
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pʁi.z‿ɑ̃ ʃaʁʒ\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for prise en charge is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁi.z‿ɑ̃ ʃaʁʒ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for prise en charge in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 en charge, spelled P-R-I-S-E- -E-N- -C-H-A-R-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Acte de prendre sous sa responsabilité une personne ou un objet.
  2. 2
    Plus particulièrement, acceptation pour un taxi de transporter une personne à destination.
  3. 3
    Par extension, somme forfaitaire qui apparaît au compteur du taxi au début de la course.
  4. 4
    Acte de prendre en charge tout ou partie des problèmes d’une personne.
  5. 5
    Action de prodiguer des soins à une personne présentant des symptômes dus à une maladie ou un accident.
  6. 6
    Acceptation par la sécurité sociale de rembourser les frais occasionnés par une prise en charge médicale.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prise en charge"?
"prise en charge" is spelled P-R-I-S-E- -E-N- -C-H-A-R-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁi.z‿ɑ̃ ʃaʁʒ\.
What does "prise en charge" mean?
As a noun, "prise en charge" means: Acte de prendre sous sa responsabilité une personne ou un objet.
How do you pronounce "prise en charge"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "prise en charge" is \pʁi.z‿ɑ̃ ʃaʁʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "prise en charge" come from?
"prise en charge" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.