épée à deux mains
The verdict
“épée à deux mains” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Longue et large épée qu’on tenait des deux mains et avec laquelle on faisait le moulinet, de manière à parer à la fois tous les coups.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | épée à deux mains |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.pe a dø mɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “épée à deux mains” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for épée à deux mains is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.pe a dø mɛ̃\. 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: "Longue et large épée qu’on tenait des deux mains et avec laquelle on faisait le moulinet, de manière à parer à la fois tous les coups.".
No misspelling variants are generated for épée à deux mains 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 épée à deux mains, spelled É-P-É-E- -À- -D-E-U-X- -M-A-I-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Longue et large épée qu’on tenait des deux mains et avec laquelle on faisait le moulinet, de manière à parer à la fois tous les coups.
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- The one correct French spelling is É-P-É-E- -À- -D-E-U-X- -M-A-I-N-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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