Dame de fer
The verdict
“Dame de fer” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Surnom de Margaret Thatcher.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dame de fer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dam də fɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Dame de fer” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Dame de fer is 11 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dam də fɛʁ\. 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 Dame de fer 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 Dame de fer, spelled D-A-M-E- -D-E- -F-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Surnom de Margaret Thatcher.
- 2Surnom de la tour Eiffel et par analogie à toute importante structure en fer.
This word in other languages
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Using “Dame de fer”
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- The one correct French spelling is D-A-M-E- -D-E- -F-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \dam də fɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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