proposition de loi
\pʁɔ.pɔ.zi.sjɔ̃ də lwa\
The verdict
“proposition de loi” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Proposition que forment un ou plusieurs parlementaires, d'une loi nouvelle, et qui est soumise aux suffrages de l'Assemblée nationale et du Sénat.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | proposition de loi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.pɔ.zi.sjɔ̃ də lwa\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “proposition de loi” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for proposition de loi is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɔ.pɔ.zi.sjɔ̃ də lwa\. 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: "Proposition que forment un ou plusieurs parlementaires, d'une loi nouvelle, et qui est soumise aux suffrages de l'Assemblée nationale et du Sénat.".
No misspelling variants are generated for proposition de loi 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 proposition de loi, spelled P-R-O-P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N- -D-E- -L-O-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Proposition que forment un ou plusieurs parlementaires, d'une loi nouvelle, et qui est soumise aux suffrages de l'Assemblée nationale et du Sénat.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-R-O-P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N- -D-E- -L-O-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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