- Package:
- src:hunspell-fr
- Source:
- src:hunspell-fr
- Submitter:
- Vincent Lefevre
- Date:
- 2025-12-17 21:39:02 UTC
- Severity:
- normal
- Tags:
The 3 .dic dictionaries contain piétonisation/S.() po:nom is:fem as seen with $ grep piéton *.dic fr-classique.dic:piéton/F+() po:nom po:adj fr-classique.dic:piétonisation/S.() po:nom is:fem fr-classique.dic:piétonnier/F.() po:nom fr-classique.dic:piétonniser/a0p+() po:v1_it____a fr-reforme1990.dic:piéton/F+() po:nom po:adj fr-reforme1990.dic:piétonisation/S.() po:nom is:fem fr-reforme1990.dic:piétonnier/F.() po:nom fr-reforme1990.dic:piétonniser/a0p+() po:v1_it____a fr-toutesvariantes.dic:piéton/F+() po:nom po:adj fr-toutesvariantes.dic:piétonisation/S.() po:nom is:fem fr-toutesvariantes.dic:piétonnier/F.() po:nom fr-toutesvariantes.dic:piétonniser/a0p+() po:v1_it____a This is incorrect. The correct spelling is "piétonnisation" (with 2 "n"): https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/pi%C3%A9tonnisation/186622 https://dictionnaire.lerobert.com/definition/pietonnisation
Le jeudi 02 octobre 2025 à 00:23 +0200, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : It seems that both forms exist, though the one with two “n” is indeed more frequent: https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/pi%C3%A9tonisation
The form with 1 "n" does not appear in the official French dictionaries: https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/pi%C3%A9tonisation gives nothing and proposes other words. https://dictionnaire.lerobert.com/definition/pietonisation ditto. fr.wiktionary.org seems incorrect, just propagating incorrect spelling. Finding a spelling on the web (or in any document, except a dictionary) does not make it correct.
Le mardi 16 décembre 2025 à 16:31 +0100, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : I don’t have a strong opinion on this topic. A natural language has no authority defining it in practice, since it evolves according to use (and in the case of French, there are several competing authorities across France, Switzerland, Belgium, Québec…). In any case, this should be forwarded upstream. The good news is that, according to upstream website, there will soon be a new upstream taking over development (currently there is no way to report an incorrect translation).
There are some authorities for considering what is correct, as described at https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectifications_orthographiques_du_fran%C3%A7ais_en_1990 (this covers France and some other French-speaking countries), and well-accepted dictionaries (Larousse, Robert) should also be accepted. But this is not the case of Wiktionnaire. Yes, I originally wanted to report the bug upstream, but I could not find it. That's why I had filled bug 1116989 first.