meurtre au premier degré
\mœʁtʁ o pʁə.mje də.ɡʁe\
The verdict
“meurtre au premier degré” 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
- 24
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Assassinat, meurtre prémédité ou autrement défini comme aggravé selon la loi.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meurtre au premier degré |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mœʁtʁ o pʁə.mje də.ɡʁe\ |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “meurtre au premier degré” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for meurtre au premier degré is 24 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mœʁtʁ o pʁə.mje də.ɡʁe\. 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: "Assassinat, meurtre prémédité ou autrement défini comme aggravé selon la loi.".
meurtre au premier degré doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is meurtre au premier degré, spelled M-E-U-R-T-R-E- -A-U- -P-R-E-M-I-E-R- -D-E-G-R-É.
Definition
- 1Assassinat, meurtre prémédité ou autrement défini comme aggravé selon la loi.
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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Using “meurtre au premier degré”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-E-U-R-T-R-E- -A-U- -P-R-E-M-I-E-R- -D-E-G-R-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mœʁtʁ o pʁə.mje də.ɡʁe\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.