épingle de sûreté
\e.pɛ̃ɡl də syʁ.te\
The verdict
“épingle de sûreté” 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
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Petit objet en métal destiné à attacher ensemble des pièces de tissu d’une manière rapide et temporaire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | épingle de sûreté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.pɛ̃ɡl də syʁ.te\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “épingle de sûreté” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for épingle de sûreté is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.pɛ̃ɡl də syʁ.te\. 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: "Petit objet en métal destiné à attacher ensemble des pièces de tissu d’une manière rapide et temporaire.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for épingle de sûreté, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is épingle de sûreté, spelled É-P-I-N-G-L-E- -D-E- -S-Û-R-E-T-É.
Definition
- 1Petit objet en métal destiné à attacher ensemble des pièces de tissu d’une manière rapide et temporaire.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “épingle de sûreté”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is É-P-I-N-G-L-E- -D-E- -S-Û-R-E-T-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \e.pɛ̃ɡl də syʁ.te\ (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.