zone de libre-échange
\zon də li.bʁe.ʃɑ̃ʒ\
The verdict
“zone de libre-échange” 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) - Territoire ouvert à la libre circulation des marchandises.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zone de libre-échange |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \zon də li.bʁe.ʃɑ̃ʒ\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “zone de libre-échange” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for zone de libre-échange is 21 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \zon də li.bʁe.ʃɑ̃ʒ\. 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: "Territoire ouvert à la libre circulation des marchandises.".
No misspelling variants are generated for zone de libre-échange 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 zone de libre-échange, spelled Z-O-N-E- -D-E- -L-I-B-R-E---É-C-H-A-N-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Territoire ouvert à la libre circulation des marchandises.
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- The one correct French spelling is Z-O-N-E- -D-E- -L-I-B-R-E---É-C-H-A-N-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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