feu rouge

/\fø ʁuʒ\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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feu rouge is aFrenchnoun. It means: Lanterne de lumière rouge pour situer la position d'un navire. Pronounced \fø ʁuʒ\.

Key facts for feu rouge
PropertyValue
Headwordfeu rouge
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fø ʁuʒ\
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

feu rouge is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for feu rouge is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fø ʁuʒ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for feu rouge 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 feu rouge, spelled F-E-U- -R-O-U-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Lanterne de lumière rouge pour situer la position d'un navire.
  2. 2
    Feu tricolore en phase rouge, imposant au conducteur d'immobiliser son véhicule.
  3. 3
    (Par métonymie) Durée de la phase rouge d'un feu de circulation.
  4. 4
    Interdiction.
  5. 5
    Arrêt, interruption.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "feu rouge"?
"feu rouge" is spelled F-E-U- -R-O-U-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fø ʁuʒ\.
What does "feu rouge" mean?
As a noun, "feu rouge" means: Lanterne de lumière rouge pour situer la position d'un navire.
How do you pronounce "feu rouge"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "feu rouge" is \fø ʁuʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "feu rouge" come from?
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Data Source: 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.