fusil à lunette
\fy.zi a ly.nɛt\
The verdict
“fusil à lunette” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fusil doté d'une lunette servant à affiner la précision du tir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fusil-a-lunette · fusil à lunette · French
fusil à lunette · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | fusil à lunette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fy.zi a ly.nɛt\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
fusil à lunette is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fy.zi a ly.nɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fusil doté d'une lunette servant à affiner la précision du tir.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fusil à lunette, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 fusil à lunette, spelled F-U-S-I-L- -À- -L-U-N-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Fusil doté d'une lunette servant à affiner la précision du tir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fusil à lunette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le tireur ne ratait jamais sa cible. Je le voyais au haut de sa guérite muni de son fusil à lunette.
Dieter est allongé sur le sol de l'étage de la grange, il a calé son fusil à lunette et observe attentivement les quelques mètres par lesquels la cible va repasser pour gagner la maison...
Synonyms
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.