lieutenant de vaisseau
\ljøt.nɑ̃ də vɛ.so\
The verdict
“lieutenant de vaisseau” 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
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Grade donné dans la Marine nationale à un officier subalterne situé entre son supérieur hiérarchique, le capitaine de corvette, et son subordonné, l’enseigne de vaisseau de première classe. Ce grad...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lieutenant de vaisseau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ljøt.nɑ̃ də vɛ.so\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lieutenant de vaisseau” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lieutenant de vaisseau is 22 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ljøt.nɑ̃ də vɛ.so\. 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 lieutenant de vaisseau 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 lieutenant de vaisseau, spelled L-I-E-U-T-E-N-A-N-T- -D-E- -V-A-I-S-S-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Grade donné dans la Marine nationale à un officier subalterne situé entre son supérieur hiérarchique, le capitaine de corvette, et son subordonné, l’enseigne de vaisseau de première classe. Ce grade correspond à celui de capitaine (non pas de lieutenant) dans les autres armées. Le code OTAN : OF-2.
- 2Grade d’officier de la Marine royale canadienne.
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- The one correct French spelling is L-I-E-U-T-E-N-A-N-T- -D-E- -V-A-I-S-S-E-A-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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