détecteur de métaux

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for détecteur de métaux is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.tɛk.tœʁ də me.to\. 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: "Appareil permettant de localiser des objets métalliques en exploitant le phénomène physique de l’induction magnétique.".

No misspelling variants are generated for détecteur de métaux 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 détecteur de métaux, spelled D-É-T-E-C-T-E-U-R- -D-E- -M-É-T-A-U-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.