fausse alarme
The verdict
“fausse alarme” 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
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Signal pour faire courir aux armes ou pour appeler au secours qui se trouve d’être erroné.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fausse alarme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fos a.laʁm\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fausse alarme” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fausse alarme is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fos a.laʁm\. 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 fausse alarme 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 fausse alarme, spelled F-A-U-S-S-E- -A-L-A-R-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Signal pour faire courir aux armes ou pour appeler au secours qui se trouve d’être erroné.
- 2Toute sorte de frayeur subite qui se trouve d’être aucune inquiétude.
- 3Signal avertissant d'un danger fait par erreur.
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Using “fausse alarme”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-A-U-S-S-E- -A-L-A-R-M-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fos a.laʁm\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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