prise en charge
\pʁi.z‿ɑ̃ ʃaʁʒ\
The verdict
“prise en charge” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Acte de prendre sous sa responsabilité une personne ou un objet.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prise en charge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁi.z‿ɑ̃ ʃaʁʒ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “prise en charge” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for prise en charge is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, 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.
prise en charge doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is prise en charge, spelled P-R-I-S-E- -E-N- -C-H-A-R-G-E.
Definition
- 1Acte de prendre sous sa responsabilité une personne ou un objet.
- 2Plus particulièrement, acceptation pour un taxi de transporter une personne à destination.
- 3Par extension, somme forfaitaire qui apparaît au compteur du taxi au début de la course.
- 4Acte de prendre en charge tout ou partie des problèmes d’une personne.
- 5Action de prodiguer des soins à une personne présentant des symptômes dus à une maladie ou un accident.
- 6Acceptation par la sécurité sociale de rembourser les frais occasionnés par une prise en charge médicale.
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.
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Using “prise en charge”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-R-I-S-E- -E-N- -C-H-A-R-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pʁi.z‿ɑ̃ ʃaʁʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.