ségrégation raciale

/\se.ɡʁe.ɡa.sjɔ̃ ʁa.sjal\/ noun

The verdict

“ségrégation raciale” 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
19
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Dominant Wiktionary sense: Politique, pratique ou situation de séparation imposée entre des groupes de personnes selon leur race ou leur couleur de peau, entraînant des restrictions d’accès à certains espaces, services ou dr...

Key facts for ségrégation raciale
PropertyValue
Headwordségrégation raciale
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\se.ɡʁe.ɡa.sjɔ̃ ʁa.sjal\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “ségrégation raciale” sits in French frequency

ségrégation raciale falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for ségrégation raciale is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \se.ɡʁe.ɡa.sjɔ̃ ʁa.sjal\. 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: "Politique, pratique ou situation de séparation imposée entre des groupes de personnes selon leur race ou leur couleur de peau, entraînant des restrictions d’accès à certains espaces, services ou dr...".

No misspelling variants are generated for ségrégation raciale 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 ségrégation raciale, spelled S-É-G-R-É-G-A-T-I-O-N- -R-A-C-I-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
    Politique, pratique ou situation de séparation imposée entre des groupes de personnes selon leur race ou leur couleur de peau, entraînant des restrictions d’accès à certains espaces, services ou droits.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ségrégation raciale"?
"ségrégation raciale" is spelled S-É-G-R-É-G-A-T-I-O-N- -R-A-C-I-A-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \se.ɡʁe.ɡa.sjɔ̃ ʁa.sjal\.
What does "ségrégation raciale" mean?
As a noun, "ségrégation raciale" means: Politique, pratique ou situation de séparation imposée entre des groupes de personnes selon leur race ou leur couleur de peau, entraînant des restrictions d’accès à certains espaces, services ou dr...
How do you pronounce "ségrégation raciale"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ségrégation raciale" is \se.ɡʁe.ɡa.sjɔ̃ ʁa.sjal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “ségrégation raciale”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is S-É-G-R-É-G-A-T-I-O-N- -R-A-C-I-A-L-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \se.ɡʁe.ɡa.sjɔ̃ ʁa.sjal\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.