feu sacré
\fø sa.kʁe\
The verdict
“feu sacré” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enthousiasme, passion, ardeur pour une cause, un métier, un art, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-feu-sacre · feu sacré · French
feu sacré · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feu sacré |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fø sa.kʁe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « feu sacré » en français
Rare enough to double-check
feu sacré is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fø sa.kʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for feu sacré 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, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is feu sacré, spelled F-E-U- -S-A-C-R-É.
Definition
- 1Enthousiasme, passion, ardeur pour une cause, un métier, un art, etc.
- 2Sentiment noble et passionné qui se conserve et se communique chez les nations et les individus.
- 3Inspiration, foi.
- 4Ardeur au travail, gout de l’étude.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how feu sacré appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À l’en croire, c’était lui qui dansait, qui levait la jambe, qui se dandinait, tellement il se donnait de mal pour communiquer à ces merveilleuses mais stupides créatures un peu du feu sacré dont il les prétendait dépourvues.
Elle hurlait la prof de maths, une femme énorme, avec une pèlerine noire sur sa blouse à carreaux : « Mesdemoiselles vous n’avez pas le feu sacré ! Des engourdies, des mollasses ! Le feu sacré, s’il vous plaît ! ». Du chinois.
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.