question préparatoire
The verdict
“question préparatoire” 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
- 21
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Série de tortures qui étaient appliquées à des accusés avant leur jugement, dans le but d'obtenir des aveux.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | question préparatoire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɛs.tjɔ̃ pʁe.pa.ʁa.twaʁ\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “question préparatoire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for question préparatoire is 21 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɛs.tjɔ̃ pʁe.pa.ʁa.twaʁ\. 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: "Série de tortures qui étaient appliquées à des accusés avant leur jugement, dans le but d'obtenir des aveux.".
No misspelling variants are generated for question préparatoire 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 préparatoire, spelled Q-U-E-S-T-I-O-N- -P-R-É-P-A-R-A-T-O-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Série de tortures qui étaient appliquées à des accusés avant leur jugement, dans le but d'obtenir des aveux.
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- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-E-S-T-I-O-N- -P-R-É-P-A-R-A-T-O-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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