trigger warning
\tʁi.ɡœʁ waʁ.niŋ\
The verdict
“trigger warning” 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
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Avertissement s’adressant à un groupe (généralement une classe d’étudiants) pour faire savoir que certains éléments de contenu pourraient être jugés offensants par certains d’entre eux.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trigger warning |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁi.ɡœʁ waʁ.niŋ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “trigger warning” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for trigger warning is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁi.ɡœʁ waʁ.niŋ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for trigger warning 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 trigger warning, spelled T-R-I-G-G-E-R- -W-A-R-N-I-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Avertissement s’adressant à un groupe (généralement une classe d’étudiants) pour faire savoir que certains éléments de contenu pourraient être jugés offensants par certains d’entre eux.
- 2Notice placée avant le début d’un contenu web, un article en ligne, courriel / e-mail ou publication / post, pour prévenir des potentiels déclencheurs de traumatismes.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “trigger warning”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-R-I-G-G-E-R- -W-A-R-N-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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