secret de la confession
\sə.kʁɛ də la kɔ̃.fe.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“secret de la confession” 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
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Obligation absolue imposée au confesseur de ne pas révéler ce qu'il a entendu en confession.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | secret de la confession |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sə.kʁɛ də la kɔ̃.fe.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “secret de la confession” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for secret de la confession is 23 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sə.kʁɛ də la kɔ̃.fe.sjɔ̃\. 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: "Obligation absolue imposée au confesseur de ne pas révéler ce qu'il a entendu en confession.".
No misspelling variants are generated for secret de la confession 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 secret de la confession, spelled S-E-C-R-E-T- -D-E- -L-A- -C-O-N-F-E-S-S-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Obligation absolue imposée au confesseur de ne pas révéler ce qu'il a entendu en confession.
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- The one correct French spelling is S-E-C-R-E-T- -D-E- -L-A- -C-O-N-F-E-S-S-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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