Émirats arabes unis
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.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
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...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Émirats arabes unis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \e.mi.ʁa a.ʁa.b‿y.ni\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Émirats arabes unis” sits in French frequency
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
- 1Fédération 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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- 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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