secrétaire générale

/\sə.kʁe.tɛʁ ʒe.ne.ʁal\/ noun

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Language

French

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secrétaire générale is aFrenchnoun. It means: Fonctionnaire chargée de la correspondance, de l’expédition des ordres et de la partie purement administrative dans un ministère, dans une préfecture, etc. Pronounced \sə.kʁe.tɛʁ ʒe.ne.ʁal\.

Key facts for secrétaire générale
PropertyValue
Headwordsecrétaire générale
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sə.kʁe.tɛʁ ʒe.ne.ʁal\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

secrétaire générale is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for secrétaire générale is 19 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sə.kʁe.tɛʁ ʒe.ne.ʁal\. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for secrétaire générale in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 secrétaire générale, spelled S-E-C-R-É-T-A-I-R-E- -G-É-N-É-R-A-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fonctionnaire chargée de la correspondance, de l’expédition des ordres et de la partie purement administrative dans un ministère, dans une préfecture, etc.
  2. 2
    Nom donné à la dirigeante de divers syndicats, partis, églises ou associations.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "secrétaire générale"?
"secrétaire générale" is spelled S-E-C-R-É-T-A-I-R-E- -G-É-N-É-R-A-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sə.kʁe.tɛʁ ʒe.ne.ʁal\.
What does "secrétaire générale" mean?
As a noun, "secrétaire générale" means: Fonctionnaire chargée de la correspondance, de l’expédition des ordres et de la partie purement administrative dans un ministère, dans une préfecture, etc.
How do you pronounce "secrétaire générale"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "secrétaire générale" is \sə.kʁe.tɛʁ ʒe.ne.ʁal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "secrétaire générale" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.