état de siège
The verdict
“état de siège” 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - État où se trouve une place de guerre lorsque, par suite de son investissement, tous les pouvoirs sont remis entre les mains de l’autorité militaire victorieuse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | état de siège |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “état de siège” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for état de siège is 13 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for état de siège 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 état de siège, spelled É-T-A-T- -D-E- -S-I-È-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1État où se trouve une place de guerre lorsque, par suite de son investissement, tous les pouvoirs sont remis entre les mains de l’autorité militaire victorieuse.
- 2Il se dit en temps de paix des mesures de sûreté, prises en vue du maintien de l’ordre, qui suspend momentanément l’effet des lois ordinaires et remet tous les pouvoirs entre les mains de l’autorité militaire.
- 3Situation exceptionnelle rendue nécessaire par des conditions particulières.
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Using “état de siège”
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- The one correct French spelling is É-T-A-T- -D-E- -S-I-È-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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