feux de détresse
\fø də de.tʁɛs\
The verdict
“feux de détresse” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Feux indicateurs de direction clignotant de façon simultanée pour indiquer une situation de danger, tels l’arrêt forcé d’un véhicule ou la réduction soudaine de sa vitesse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feux de détresse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fø də de.tʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “feux de détresse” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for feux de détresse is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fø də de.tʁɛs\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Feux indicateurs de direction clignotant de façon simultanée pour indiquer une situation de danger, tels l’arrêt forcé d’un véhicule ou la réduction soudaine de sa vitesse.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for feux de détresse, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is feux de détresse, spelled F-E-U-X- -D-E- -D-É-T-R-E-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Feux indicateurs de direction clignotant de façon simultanée pour indiquer une situation de danger, tels l’arrêt forcé d’un véhicule ou la réduction soudaine de sa vitesse.
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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 “feux de détresse”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-E-U-X- -D-E- -D-É-T-R-E-S-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.