smart city
\smaʁt si.ti\
The verdict
“smart city” 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
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ville qui utilise les NTIC pour améliorer sa gestion.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | smart city |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \smaʁt si.ti\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “smart city” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for smart city is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \smaʁt si.ti\. 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: "Ville qui utilise les NTIC pour améliorer sa gestion.".
No misspelling variants are generated for smart city 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 smart city, spelled S-M-A-R-T- -C-I-T-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ville qui utilise les NTIC pour améliorer sa gestion.
Synonyms
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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Using “smart city”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-M-A-R-T- -C-I-T-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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