lampe de Wood
\lɑ̃p də wud\
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lampe de Wood |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃p də wud\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lampe de Wood” sits in French frequency
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
- 1Lampe émettant de la lumière de Wood nommée aussi lumière noire.
This word in other languages
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- 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.
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