arme nucléaire
\aʁm ny.kle.ɛʁ\
The verdict
“arme nucléaire” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Arme de destruction massive utilisant l’énergie nucléaire, produite soit par fission ou par fusion.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arme nucléaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁm ny.kle.ɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “arme nucléaire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for arme nucléaire is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \aʁm ny.kle.ɛʁ\. 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: "Arme de destruction massive utilisant l’énergie nucléaire, produite soit par fission ou par fusion.".
No misspelling variants are generated for arme nucléaire 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 arme nucléaire, spelled A-R-M-E- -N-U-C-L-É-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Arme de destruction massive utilisant l’énergie nucléaire, produite soit par fission ou par fusion.
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- The one correct French spelling is A-R-M-E- -N-U-C-L-É-A-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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