système de fichiers
\sis.tɛm də fi.ʃje\
The verdict
“système de fichiers” 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) - Façon de stocker les informations et de les organiser dans des fichiers sur ce que l’on appelle des mémoires secondaires (disque dur, CD-ROM, clé USB, SSD, disquette, etc.).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | système de fichiers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sis.tɛm də fi.ʃje\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “système de fichiers” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for système de fichiers is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sis.tɛm də fi.ʃje\. 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: "Façon de stocker les informations et de les organiser dans des fichiers sur ce que l’on appelle des mémoires secondaires (disque dur, CD-ROM, clé USB, SSD, disquette, etc.).".
No misspelling variants are generated for système de fichiers 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 système de fichiers, spelled S-Y-S-T-È-M-E- -D-E- -F-I-C-H-I-E-R-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Façon de stocker les informations et de les organiser dans des fichiers sur ce que l’on appelle des mémoires secondaires (disque dur, CD-ROM, clé USB, SSD, disquette, etc.).
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- The one correct French spelling is S-Y-S-T-È-M-E- -D-E- -F-I-C-H-I-E-R-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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