argent allemand
\aʁ.ʒɑ̃ al.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“argent allemand” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Donné parfois comme synonyme de maillechort, cet alliage inventé en Allemagne existait — semble t-il — avant le maillechort.
Corpus desk
Index FR-argent-allemand · argent allemand · French
argent allemand · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | argent allemand |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.ʒɑ̃ al.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
argent allemand is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.ʒɑ̃ al.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Donné parfois comme synonyme de maillechort, cet alliage inventé en Allemagne existait — semble t-il — avant le maillechort.".
Zero misspellings are on record for argent allemand in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is argent allemand, spelled A-R-G-E-N-T- -A-L-L-E-M-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1Donné parfois comme synonyme de maillechort, cet alliage inventé en Allemagne existait — semble t-il — avant le maillechort.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how argent allemand appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces trois derniers alliages renferment une quantité de zinc moins considérable que le laiton. Elle varie de 6 à 20 p. cent. Le maillechort (packfung ou argentan, argent allemand) est un alliage de cuivre, de zinc et de nickel, ….
L’argent allemand et le maillechort ont la blancheur, le brillant, la sonorité, le poids, l'inaltérabilité presque de l’argent de vaiselle.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.