syndrome de Lejeune
\sɛ̃.dʁom də lə.ʒœn\
The verdict
“syndrome de Lejeune” 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
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Synonyme de maladie du cri du chat.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | syndrome de Lejeune |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ̃.dʁom də lə.ʒœn\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “syndrome de Lejeune” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for syndrome de Lejeune is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛ̃.dʁom də lə.ʒœn\. 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: "Synonyme de maladie du cri du chat.".
No misspelling variants are generated for syndrome de Lejeune 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 syndrome de Lejeune, spelled S-Y-N-D-R-O-M-E- -D-E- -L-E-J-E-U-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de maladie du cri du chat.
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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