taux de chômage
The verdict
“taux de chômage” 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
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Pourcentage de la population active qui est chômeur ou chômeuse, c’est-à-dire sans emploi et en recherche active d’un emploi.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taux de chômage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \to də ʃo.maʒ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “taux de chômage” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for taux de chômage is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \to də ʃo.maʒ\. 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: "Pourcentage de la population active qui est chômeur ou chômeuse, c’est-à-dire sans emploi et en recherche active d’un emploi.".
No misspelling variants are generated for taux de chômage 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 taux de chômage, spelled T-A-U-X- -D-E- -C-H-Ô-M-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pourcentage de la population active qui est chômeur ou chômeuse, c’est-à-dire sans emploi et en recherche active d’un emploi.
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- The one correct French spelling is T-A-U-X- -D-E- -C-H-Ô-M-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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