proposition relative
\pʁɔ.pɔ.zi.sjɔ̃ ʁə.la.tiv\
The verdict
“proposition relative” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
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According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Proposition qui qualifie un nom adjacent, souvent marquée par un relatif. Dans le syntagme nominal l’homme qui traversait le village, par exemple, qui traversait le village est une proposition rela...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | proposition relative |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.pɔ.zi.sjɔ̃ ʁə.la.tiv\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “proposition relative” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for proposition relative is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɔ.pɔ.zi.sjɔ̃ ʁə.la.tiv\. 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 qui qualifie un nom adjacent, souvent marquée par un relatif. Dans le syntagme nominal l’homme qui traversait le village, par exemple, qui traversait le village est une proposition rela...".
No misspelling variants are generated for proposition relative 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 relative, spelled P-R-O-P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N- -R-E-L-A-T-I-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Proposition qui qualifie un nom adjacent, souvent marquée par un relatif. Dans le syntagme nominal l’homme qui traversait le village, par exemple, qui traversait le village est une proposition relative marquée par le relatif qui.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-R-O-P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N- -R-E-L-A-T-I-V-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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