flèche du Parthe

/\flɛʃ dy paʁt\/ noun

The verdict

“flèche du Parthe” 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

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Trait piquant, par exemple sous forme d’attaque verbale ironique ou cruelle, lancé au moment où l’on se retire.

Key facts for flèche du Parthe
PropertyValue
Headwordflèche du Parthe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\flɛʃ dy paʁt\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “flèche du Parthe” sits in French frequency

flèche du Parthe falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for flèche du Parthe is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \flɛʃ dy paʁt\. 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: "Trait piquant, par exemple sous forme d’attaque verbale ironique ou cruelle, lancé au moment où l’on se retire.".

No misspelling variants are generated for flèche du Parthe 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 flèche du Parthe, spelled F-L-È-C-H-E- -D-U- -P-A-R-T-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Trait piquant, par exemple sous forme d’attaque verbale ironique ou cruelle, lancé au moment où l’on se retire.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "flèche du Parthe"?
"flèche du Parthe" is spelled F-L-È-C-H-E- -D-U- -P-A-R-T-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is \flɛʃ dy paʁt\.
What does "flèche du Parthe" mean?
As a noun, "flèche du Parthe" means: Trait piquant, par exemple sous forme d’attaque verbale ironique ou cruelle, lancé au moment où l’on se retire.
How do you pronounce "flèche du Parthe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "flèche du Parthe" is \flɛʃ dy paʁt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "flèche du Parthe" come from?
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Using “flèche du Parthe”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is F-L-È-C-H-E- -D-U- -P-A-R-T-H-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \flɛʃ dy paʁt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.