fer de lance
Letters
12 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
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similar word pairs
fer de lance is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pointe en fer, attachée au bout d’une flèche, d’une lance, ou d’une pique. Pronounced \fɛʁ də lɑ̃s\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fer de lance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛʁ də lɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for fer de lance is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛʁ də lɑ̃s\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for fer de lance in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 fer de lance, spelled F-E-R- -D-E- -L-A-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pointe en fer, attachée au bout d’une flèche, d’une lance, ou d’une pique.
- 2Élément le plus dynamique ou actif d’un groupe.
- 3Celui qui est le plus représentatif.
- 4Espèce de serpent, de nom scientifique Bothrops atrox.
- 5Meuble représentant l’arme du même nom dans les armoiries. Elle est généralement représentée en pal, pointe vers le chef. À rapprocher de bocquet, fer de dard, fer de flèche, fer de pique et phéon.
- 6Dont la forme évoque celle d’un fer de lance.
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