question piège
The verdict
“question piège” 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
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Question posée dans le but de mettre à l’épreuve la personne interrogée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | question piège |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɛs.tjɔ̃ pjɛʒ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “question piège” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for question piège is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɛs.tjɔ̃ pjɛʒ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for question piège 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 piège, spelled Q-U-E-S-T-I-O-N- -P-I-È-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Question posée dans le but de mettre à l’épreuve la personne interrogée.
- 2Question absurde à laquelle il n’y a pas de réponse, posée dans le but de tester les capacités de raisonnement de la personne interrogée, du candidat.
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Using “question piège”
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- -P-I-È-G-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɛs.tjɔ̃ pjɛʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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