larme de sirène
\laʁm də si.ʁɛn\
The verdict
“larme de sirène” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Larme d’une sirène.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | larme de sirène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \laʁm də si.ʁɛn\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “larme de sirène” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for larme de sirène is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \laʁm də si.ʁɛn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for larme de sirène 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 larme de sirène, spelled L-A-R-M-E- -D-E- -S-I-R-È-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Larme d’une sirène.
- 2(Rudologie) Petit morceau de verre émoussé et poli par les flots, les vagues et le ressac.
- 3(Molysmologie, Rudologie) Microbille ou granulé en plastique d’origine industrielle, cause de pollution des milieux aquatiques (fluvial, marin et côtier). — Note : Locution plutôt utilisée au pluriel dans ce sens
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is L-A-R-M-E- -D-E- -S-I-R-È-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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