service de renseignement
\sɛʁ.vis də ʁɑ̃.sɛ.ɲə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“service de renseignement” 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
- 24
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Service qu’un État utilise afin de collecter des informations dans le but de servir ses intérêts, notamment sous la forme de services d'espionnage et de contre-espionnage.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | service de renseignement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛʁ.vis də ʁɑ̃.sɛ.ɲə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “service de renseignement” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for service de renseignement is 24 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛʁ.vis də ʁɑ̃.sɛ.ɲə.mɑ̃\. 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: "Service qu’un État utilise afin de collecter des informations dans le but de servir ses intérêts, notamment sous la forme de services d'espionnage et de contre-espionnage.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for service de renseignement, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is service de renseignement, spelled S-E-R-V-I-C-E- -D-E- -R-E-N-S-E-I-G-N-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Service qu’un État utilise afin de collecter des informations dans le but de servir ses intérêts, notamment sous la forme de services d'espionnage et de contre-espionnage.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is S-E-R-V-I-C-E- -D-E- -R-E-N-S-E-I-G-N-E-M-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.