question ouverte
The verdict
“question ouverte” 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
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Question sans choix prédéfini, laissant à son destinataire le choix dans la formulation de sa réponse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | question ouverte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɛs.tjɔ̃ u.vɛʁt\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “question ouverte” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for question ouverte is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɛs.tjɔ̃ u.vɛʁt\. 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: "Question sans choix prédéfini, laissant à son destinataire le choix dans la formulation de sa réponse.".
No misspelling variants are generated for question ouverte 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 question ouverte, spelled Q-U-E-S-T-I-O-N- -O-U-V-E-R-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Question sans choix prédéfini, laissant à son destinataire le choix dans la formulation de sa réponse.
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Using “question ouverte”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-E-S-T-I-O-N- -O-U-V-E-R-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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