arrêt de mort
\a.ʁɛ də mɔʁ\
The verdict
“arrêt de mort” 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Décision qui conduit à l’application de la peine de mort.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arrêt de mort |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ʁɛ də mɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “arrêt de mort” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for arrêt de mort is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ʁɛ də mɔʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for arrêt de mort 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 arrêt de mort, spelled A-R-R-Ê-T- -D-E- -M-O-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Décision qui conduit à l’application de la peine de mort.
- 2Événement, situation, décision qui entraîne la mort ou la disparition certaine et définitive.
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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.
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- The one correct French spelling is A-R-R-Ê-T- -D-E- -M-O-R-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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