épée de Damoclès
The verdict
“épée de Damoclès” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Danger susceptible de se produire d’un instant à l’autre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-epee-de-damocles · épée de Damoclès · French
épée de Damoclès · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "É" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | épée de Damoclès |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “épée de Damoclès” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
épée de Damoclès is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Danger susceptible de se produire d’un instant à l’autre.".
No misspelling variants are generated for épée de Damoclès in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is épée de Damoclès, spelled É-P-É-E- -D-E- -D-A-M-O-C-L-È-S.
Definition
- 1Danger susceptible de se produire d’un instant à l’autre.
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