théorie des ensembles
\te.ɔ.ʁi dɛ.z‿ɑ̃.sɑ̃bl\
The verdict
“théorie des ensembles” 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
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Branche des mathématiques se donnant comme primitives les notions d’ensemble et d’appartenance.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | théorie des ensembles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \te.ɔ.ʁi dɛ.z‿ɑ̃.sɑ̃bl\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “théorie des ensembles” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for théorie des ensembles is 21 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \te.ɔ.ʁi dɛ.z‿ɑ̃.sɑ̃bl\. 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: "Branche des mathématiques se donnant comme primitives les notions d’ensemble et d’appartenance.".
No misspelling variants are generated for théorie des ensembles 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 théorie des ensembles, spelled T-H-É-O-R-I-E- -D-E-S- -E-N-S-E-M-B-L-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Branche des mathématiques se donnant comme primitives les notions d’ensemble et d’appartenance.
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- The one correct French spelling is T-H-É-O-R-I-E- -D-E-S- -E-N-S-E-M-B-L-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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