Émirats arabes unis

/\e.mi.ʁa a.ʁa.b‿y.ni\/ name

The verdict

“Émirats arabes unis” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

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19
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Dominant Wiktionary sense: Fédération d’émirats, regroupant Abou Dabi, Ajman, Charjah, Doubaï, Foudjaïrah, Oumm al-Qaïwaïn et Ras el-Khaïmah, bordés au nord par le golfe Persique, à l’est par Oman, au nord-est par le golfe d...

Key facts for Émirats arabes unis
PropertyValue
HeadwordÉmirats arabes unis
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\e.mi.ʁa a.ʁa.b‿y.ni\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Émirats arabes unis” sits in French frequency

Émirats arabes unis falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Émirats arabes unis is 19 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.mi.ʁa a.ʁa.b‿y.ni\. 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: "Fédération d’émirats, regroupant Abou Dabi, Ajman, Charjah, Doubaï, Foudjaïrah, Oumm al-Qaïwaïn et Ras el-Khaïmah, bordés au nord par le golfe Persique, à l’est par Oman, au nord-est par le golfe d...".

No misspelling variants are generated for Émirats arabes unis 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 Émirats arabes unis, spelled É-M-I-R-A-T-S- -A-R-A-B-E-S- -U-N-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Fédération d’émirats, regroupant Abou Dabi, Ajman, Charjah, Doubaï, Foudjaïrah, Oumm al-Qaïwaïn et Ras el-Khaïmah, bordés au nord par le golfe Persique, à l’est par Oman, au nord-est par le golfe d’Oman et au sud par l’Arabie saoudite. La capitale de la fédération est Abou Dabi.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Émirats arabes unis"?
"Émirats arabes unis" is spelled É-M-I-R-A-T-S- -A-R-A-B-E-S- -U-N-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \e.mi.ʁa a.ʁa.b‿y.ni\.
What does "Émirats arabes unis" mean?
As a proper noun, "Émirats arabes unis" means: Fédération d’émirats, regroupant Abou Dabi, Ajman, Charjah, Doubaï, Foudjaïrah, Oumm al-Qaïwaïn et Ras el-Khaïmah, bordés au nord par le golfe Persique, à l’est par Oman, au nord-est par le golfe d...
How do you pronounce "Émirats arabes unis"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Émirats arabes unis" is \e.mi.ʁa a.ʁa.b‿y.ni\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “Émirats arabes unis”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is É-M-I-R-A-T-S- -A-R-A-B-E-S- -U-N-I-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \e.mi.ʁa a.ʁa.b‿y.ni\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: 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.