lutte contre l’incendie
\lyt kɔ̃tʁ l‿ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di\
The verdict
“lutte contre l’incendie” 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
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Atténuation ou extinction d’un feu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lutte contre l’incendie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lyt kɔ̃tʁ l‿ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lutte contre l’incendie” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lutte contre l’incendie is 23 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lyt kɔ̃tʁ l‿ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di\. 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 lutte contre l’incendie 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 lutte contre l’incendie, spelled L-U-T-T-E- -C-O-N-T-R-E- -L-’-I-N-C-E-N-D-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Atténuation ou extinction d’un feu.
- 2Profession ou activité de sapeur-pompier.
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- The one correct French spelling is L-U-T-T-E- -C-O-N-T-R-E- -L-’-I-N-C-E-N-D-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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