ancre de miséricorde
\ɑ̃kʁ də mi.ze.ʁi.kɔʁd\
The verdict
“ancre de miséricorde” 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
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Au temps de la marine à voile, cette ancre, appelée aussi ancre de salut ou ancre maîtresse, était l'ancre la plus grande et la plus pesante du bord. Elle était utilisée pour les mouillages de long...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ancre de miséricorde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃kʁ də mi.ze.ʁi.kɔʁd\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ancre de miséricorde” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ancre de miséricorde is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃kʁ də mi.ze.ʁi.kɔʁd\. 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: "Au temps de la marine à voile, cette ancre, appelée aussi ancre de salut ou ancre maîtresse, était l'ancre la plus grande et la plus pesante du bord. Elle était utilisée pour les mouillages de long...".
No misspelling variants are generated for ancre de miséricorde 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 ancre de miséricorde, spelled A-N-C-R-E- -D-E- -M-I-S-É-R-I-C-O-R-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Au temps de la marine à voile, cette ancre, appelée aussi ancre de salut ou ancre maîtresse, était l'ancre la plus grande et la plus pesante du bord. Elle était utilisée pour les mouillages de longue durée ou dans des endroits peu sûrs. À cause de son poids, elle était aussi utilisée en dernier recours dans les cas désespérés.
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- The one correct French spelling is A-N-C-R-E- -D-E- -M-I-S-É-R-I-C-O-R-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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