République centrafricaine
The verdict
“République centrafricaine” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 25
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: État situé en Afrique centrale, entouré par le Cameroun à l’ouest, le Tchad au nord, le Soudan et le Soudan du Sud à l’est, la République démocratique du Congo (ex-Zaïre) et la République du Congo ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | République centrafricaine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.py.blik sɑ̃.tʁa.fʁi.kɛn\ |
| Letters | 25 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “République centrafricaine” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for République centrafricaine is 25 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁe.py.blik sɑ̃.tʁa.fʁi.kɛn\. 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: "État situé en Afrique centrale, entouré par le Cameroun à l’ouest, le Tchad au nord, le Soudan et le Soudan du Sud à l’est, la République démocratique du Congo (ex-Zaïre) et la République du Congo ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for République centrafricaine 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 République centrafricaine, spelled R-É-P-U-B-L-I-Q-U-E- -C-E-N-T-R-A-F-R-I-C-A-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1État situé en Afrique centrale, entouré par le Cameroun à l’ouest, le Tchad au nord, le Soudan et le Soudan du Sud à l’est, la République démocratique du Congo (ex-Zaïre) et la République du Congo au sud. Sa capitale est Bangui.
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Using “République centrafricaine”
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- The one correct French spelling is R-É-P-U-B-L-I-Q-U-E- -C-E-N-T-R-A-F-R-I-C-A-I-N-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁe.py.blik sɑ̃.tʁa.fʁi.kɛn\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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