lampe électrique
\lɑ̃.p‿e.lɛk.tʁik\
The verdict
“lampe électrique” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Lampe utilisant l’électricité comme source d’énergie pour émettre de la lumière.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lampe électrique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃.p‿e.lɛk.tʁik\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lampe électrique” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lampe électrique is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɑ̃.p‿e.lɛk.tʁik\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for lampe électrique 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 électrique, spelled L-A-M-P-E- -É-L-E-C-T-R-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lampe utilisant l’électricité comme source d’énergie pour émettre de la lumière.
- 2Petite boîte portative munie d’une pile et d’une ampoule.
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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.
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- The one correct French spelling is L-A-M-P-E- -É-L-E-C-T-R-I-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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