protection des témoins
\pʁɔ.tɛk.sjɔ̃ de te.mwɛ̃\
The verdict
“protection des témoins” 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
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Service permettant de protéger des témoins de crimes contre toute atteinte violente, avant ou après leur témoignage.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | protection des témoins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.tɛk.sjɔ̃ de te.mwɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “protection des témoins” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for protection des témoins is 22 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɔ.tɛk.sjɔ̃ de te.mwɛ̃\. 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: "Service permettant de protéger des témoins de crimes contre toute atteinte violente, avant ou après leur témoignage.".
No misspelling variants are generated for protection des témoins 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 protection des témoins, spelled P-R-O-T-E-C-T-I-O-N- -D-E-S- -T-É-M-O-I-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Service permettant de protéger des témoins de crimes contre toute atteinte violente, avant ou après leur témoignage.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-R-O-T-E-C-T-I-O-N- -D-E-S- -T-É-M-O-I-N-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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