lancer du marteau
The verdict
“lancer du marteau” 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
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Épreuve d’athlétisme qui consiste à lancer un boulet en acier le plus loin possible.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lancer du marteau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃.se də maʁ.to\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lancer du marteau” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lancer du marteau is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɑ̃.se də maʁ.to\. 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: "Épreuve d’athlétisme qui consiste à lancer un boulet en acier le plus loin possible.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lancer du marteau 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 lancer du marteau, spelled L-A-N-C-E-R- -D-U- -M-A-R-T-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Épreuve d’athlétisme qui consiste à lancer un boulet en acier le plus loin possible.
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Using “lancer du marteau”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-A-N-C-E-R- -D-U- -M-A-R-T-E-A-U — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \lɑ̃.se də maʁ.to\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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