fourmi légionnaire
\fuʁ.mi le.ʒjɔ.nɛʁ\
The verdict
“fourmi légionnaire” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Fourmi nomade sans nid fixe qui se déplace en grandes ou très grandes colonies (jusqu'à des dizaines de millions chez certaines espèces) en fonction de la disponibilité des proies et des cycles de ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fourmi légionnaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fuʁ.mi le.ʒjɔ.nɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fourmi légionnaire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fourmi légionnaire is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fuʁ.mi le.ʒjɔ.nɛʁ\. 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: "Fourmi nomade sans nid fixe qui se déplace en grandes ou très grandes colonies (jusqu'à des dizaines de millions chez certaines espèces) en fonction de la disponibilité des proies et des cycles de ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for fourmi légionnaire 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 fourmi légionnaire, spelled F-O-U-R-M-I- -L-É-G-I-O-N-N-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fourmi nomade sans nid fixe qui se déplace en grandes ou très grandes colonies (jusqu'à des dizaines de millions chez certaines espèces) en fonction de la disponibilité des proies et des cycles de ponte de la reine.
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- The one correct French spelling is F-O-U-R-M-I- -L-É-G-I-O-N-N-A-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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