lampe de Wood

\lɑ̃p də wud\

/\lɑ̃p də wud\/ noun

The verdict

“lampe de Wood” 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
13
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Lampe émettant de la lumière de Wood nommée aussi lumière noire.

Key facts for lampe de Wood
PropertyValue
Headwordlampe de Wood
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\lɑ̃p də wud\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “lampe de Wood” sits in French frequency

lampe de Wood 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 lampe de Wood is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɑ̃p də wud\. 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: "Lampe émettant de la lumière de Wood nommée aussi lumière noire.".

No misspelling variants are generated for lampe de Wood 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 lampe de Wood, spelled L-A-M-P-E- -D-E- -W-O-O-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Lampe émettant de la lumière de Wood nommée aussi lumière noire.

This word in other languages

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "lampe de Wood"?
"lampe de Wood" is spelled L-A-M-P-E- -D-E- -W-O-O-D. The IPA pronunciation is \lɑ̃p də wud\.
What does "lampe de Wood" mean?
As a noun, "lampe de Wood" means: Lampe émettant de la lumière de Wood nommée aussi lumière noire.
How do you pronounce "lampe de Wood"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "lampe de Wood" is \lɑ̃p də wud\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "lampe de Wood" come from?
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Using “lampe de Wood”

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

  • The one correct French spelling is L-A-M-P-E- -D-E- -W-O-O-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \lɑ̃p də wud\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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