troisième personne
The verdict
“troisième personne” 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: Référence dans le discours à une personne différente du locuteur (celui qui parle) et du destinataire (celui à qui on parle). En français, il, lui, elle, eux et elles sont des pronoms personnels de...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | troisième personne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁwa.zjɛm pɛʁ.sɔn\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “troisième personne” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for troisième personne is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁwa.zjɛm pɛʁ.sɔn\. 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: "Référence dans le discours à une personne différente du locuteur (celui qui parle) et du destinataire (celui à qui on parle). En français, il, lui, elle, eux et elles sont des pronoms personnels de...".
No misspelling variants are generated for troisième personne 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 troisième personne, spelled T-R-O-I-S-I-È-M-E- -P-E-R-S-O-N-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Référence dans le discours à une personne différente du locuteur (celui qui parle) et du destinataire (celui à qui on parle). En français, il, lui, elle, eux et elles sont des pronoms personnels de la troisième personne.
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- The one correct French spelling is T-R-O-I-S-I-È-M-E- -P-E-R-S-O-N-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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