taux de fécondité
\to də fe.kɔ̃.di.te\
The verdict
“taux de fécondité” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nombre moyen d’enfants par femme.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taux de fécondité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \to də fe.kɔ̃.di.te\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “taux de fécondité” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for taux de fécondité is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \to də fe.kɔ̃.di.te\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for taux de fécondité 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 fécondité, spelled T-A-U-X- -D-E- -F-É-C-O-N-D-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nombre moyen d’enfants par femme.
- 2Nombre moyen d’enfants par femme.
- 3Nombre moyen d’enfants par femme.
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- The one correct French spelling is T-A-U-X- -D-E- -F-É-C-O-N-D-I-T-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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