hache de Damoclès

/\aʃ də da.mɔ.kles\/ noun

Letters

17 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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Confusables

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hache de Damoclès is aFrenchnoun. It means: Épée de Damoclès. Pronounced \aʃ də da.mɔ.kles\.

Key facts for hache de Damoclès
PropertyValue
Headwordhache de Damoclès
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\aʃ də da.mɔ.kles\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

hache de Damoclès is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for hache de Damoclès is 17 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \aʃ də da.mɔ.kles\. 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: "Épée de Damoclès.".

No misspelling variants are generated for hache de Damoclès 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 hache de Damoclès, spelled H-A-C-H-E- -D-E- -D-A-M-O-C-L-È-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Épée de Damoclès.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hache de Damoclès"?
"hache de Damoclès" is spelled H-A-C-H-E- -D-E- -D-A-M-O-C-L-È-S. The IPA pronunciation is \aʃ də da.mɔ.kles\.
What does "hache de Damoclès" mean?
As a noun, "hache de Damoclès" means: Épée de Damoclès.
How do you pronounce "hache de Damoclès"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hache de Damoclès" is \aʃ də da.mɔ.kles\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "hache de Damoclès" come from?
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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.