fer de pique
\fɛʁ də pik\
The verdict
“fer de pique” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Meuble représentant l’arme du même nom dans les armoiries. Elle se blasonne comme le fer de lance avec lequel il est souvent confondu. À rapprocher de bocquet, fer de dard, fer de flèche, fer de la...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fer de pique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛʁ də pik\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fer de pique” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
fer de pique is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɛʁ də pik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Meuble représentant l’arme du même nom dans les armoiries. Elle se blasonne comme le fer de lance avec lequel il est souvent confondu. À rapprocher de bocquet, fer de dard, fer de flèche, fer de la...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for fer de pique in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fer de pique, spelled F-E-R- -D-E- -P-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Meuble représentant l’arme du même nom dans les armoiries. Elle se blasonne comme le fer de lance avec lequel il est souvent confondu. À rapprocher de bocquet, fer de dard, fer de flèche, fer de lance et phéon.
Synonyms
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 “fer de pique”
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- The one correct French spelling is F-E-R- -D-E- -P-I-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fɛʁ də pik\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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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.