épingle de sûreté
\e.pɛ̃ɡl də syʁ.te\
The verdict
“épingle de sûreté” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit objet en métal destiné à attacher ensemble des pièces de tissu d’une manière rapide et temporaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-epingle-de-surete · épingle de sûreté · French
épingle de sûreté · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 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 | 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « épingle de sûreté » en français
Rare enough to double-check
épingle de sûreté is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.pɛ̃ɡl də syʁ.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how épingle de sûreté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La mère criait que la petite avait dû avaler une épingle de sûreté qui s’était ouverte dans le foie.
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.