fusil à silex
\fy.si a si.lɛks\
The verdict
“fusil à silex” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fusil utilisant une pierre à fusil, un silex taillé, pour la mise à feu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fusil-a-silex · fusil à silex · French
fusil à silex · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 silex |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fy.si a si.lɛks\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fusil à silex » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fusil à silex is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fy.si a si.lɛks\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fusil utilisant une pierre à fusil, un silex taillé, pour la mise à feu.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fusil à silex, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 silex, spelled F-U-S-I-L- -À- -S-I-L-E-X.
Definition
- 1Fusil utilisant une pierre à fusil, un silex taillé, pour la mise à feu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fusil à silex appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A l'invention grossière du mousquet à mèche succéda le fusil à rouet, qui, lui-même, fut bientôt remplacé par le fusil à silex dont Louis XIV arma toute l'infanterie française en 1703.
This word in other languages
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.