triangle de Pascal
The verdict
“triangle de Pascal” 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
- 18
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Présentation des coefficients binomiaux dans un triangle, utilisé dans le calcul des probabilités.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | triangle de Pascal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁi.jɑ̃ɡl də pas.kal\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “triangle de Pascal” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for triangle de Pascal is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁi.jɑ̃ɡl də pas.kal\. 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: "Présentation des coefficients binomiaux dans un triangle, utilisé dans le calcul des probabilités.".
No misspelling variants are generated for triangle de Pascal 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 triangle de Pascal, spelled T-R-I-A-N-G-L-E- -D-E- -P-A-S-C-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Présentation des coefficients binomiaux dans un triangle, utilisé dans le calcul des probabilités.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-R-I-A-N-G-L-E- -D-E- -P-A-S-C-A-L — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tʁi.jɑ̃ɡl də pas.kal\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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