valeurs de référence
The verdict
“valeurs de référence” 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
- 20
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Pluriel de valeur de référence.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | valeurs de référence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \va.lœʁ də ʁe.fe.ʁɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “valeurs de référence” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for valeurs de référence is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \va.lœʁ də ʁe.fe.ʁɑ̃s\. 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: "Pluriel de valeur de référence.".
No misspelling variants are generated for valeurs de référence 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 valeurs de référence, spelled V-A-L-E-U-R-S- -D-E- -R-É-F-É-R-E-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de valeur de référence.
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- The one correct French spelling is V-A-L-E-U-R-S- -D-E- -R-É-F-É-R-E-N-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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