lanterne des morts
\lɑ̃.tɛʁn de mɔʁ\
The verdict
“lanterne des morts” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Édifice maçonné en forme de tour, généralement creux et surmonté d'un pavillon ajouré, dans lequel, au crépuscule, on hissait une lampe allumée, supposée servir de guide aux défunts.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lanterne des morts |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃.tɛʁn de mɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lanterne des morts” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lanterne des morts is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɑ̃.tɛʁn de mɔʁ\. 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: "Édifice maçonné en forme de tour, généralement creux et surmonté d'un pavillon ajouré, dans lequel, au crépuscule, on hissait une lampe allumée, supposée servir de guide aux défunts.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lanterne des morts 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 lanterne des morts, spelled L-A-N-T-E-R-N-E- -D-E-S- -M-O-R-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Édifice maçonné en forme de tour, généralement creux et surmonté d'un pavillon ajouré, dans lequel, au crépuscule, on hissait une lampe allumée, supposée servir de guide aux défunts.
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-N-T-E-R-N-E- -D-E-S- -M-O-R-T-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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