bande d’arrêt d’urgence
\bɑ̃d d‿a.ʁɛ d‿yʁ.ʒɑ̃s\
The verdict
“bande d’arrêt d’urgence” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Zone dégagée de tout obstacle, située en bordure des autoroutes et de certaines voies rapides, permettant le dégagement puis l’immobilisation de véhicules en cas d’urgence, ainsi que la circulation...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bande d’arrêt d’urgence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɑ̃d d‿a.ʁɛ d‿yʁ.ʒɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bande d’arrêt d’urgence” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
bande d’arrêt d’urgence is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɑ̃d d‿a.ʁɛ d‿yʁ.ʒɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Zone dégagée de tout obstacle, située en bordure des autoroutes et de certaines voies rapides, permettant le dégagement puis l’immobilisation de véhicules en cas d’urgence, ainsi que la circulation...".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bande d’arrêt d’urgence, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bande d’arrêt d’urgence, spelled B-A-N-D-E- -D-’-A-R-R-Ê-T- -D-’-U-R-G-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Zone dégagée de tout obstacle, située en bordure des autoroutes et de certaines voies rapides, permettant le dégagement puis l’immobilisation de véhicules en cas d’urgence, ainsi que la circulation des véhicules de secours.
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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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Using “bande d’arrêt d’urgence”
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- The one correct French spelling is B-A-N-D-E- -D-’-A-R-R-Ê-T- -D-’-U-R-G-E-N-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bɑ̃d d‿a.ʁɛ d‿yʁ.ʒɑ̃s\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.