quartier de haute sécurité

/\kaʁ.tje də ot se.ky.ʁi.te\/ noun

The verdict

“quartier de haute sécurité” 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
26
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Département carcéral bénéficiant de mesures de sécurité plus poussées que dans les autres départements d'une prison.

Key facts for quartier de haute sécurité
PropertyValue
Headwordquartier de haute sécurité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kaʁ.tje də ot se.ky.ʁi.te\
Letters26
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “quartier de haute sécurité” sits in French frequency

quartier de haute sécurité falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for quartier de haute sécurité is 26 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaʁ.tje də ot se.ky.ʁi.te\. 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: "Département carcéral bénéficiant de mesures de sécurité plus poussées que dans les autres départements d'une prison.".

No misspelling variants are generated for quartier de haute sécurité 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 quartier de haute sécurité, spelled Q-U-A-R-T-I-E-R- -D-E- -H-A-U-T-E- -S-É-C-U-R-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Département carcéral bénéficiant de mesures de sécurité plus poussées que dans les autres départements d'une prison.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quartier de haute sécurité"?
"quartier de haute sécurité" is spelled Q-U-A-R-T-I-E-R- -D-E- -H-A-U-T-E- -S-É-C-U-R-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \kaʁ.tje də ot se.ky.ʁi.te\.
What does "quartier de haute sécurité" mean?
As a noun, "quartier de haute sécurité" means: Département carcéral bénéficiant de mesures de sécurité plus poussées que dans les autres départements d'une prison.
How do you pronounce "quartier de haute sécurité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quartier de haute sécurité" is \kaʁ.tje də ot se.ky.ʁi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “quartier de haute sécurité”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is Q-U-A-R-T-I-E-R- -D-E- -H-A-U-T-E- -S-É-C-U-R-I-T-É — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \kaʁ.tje də ot se.ky.ʁi.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.