pistolet à impulsion électrique
\pis.tɔ.le a ɛ̃.pyl.sjɔ̃ e.lɛk.tʁik\
The verdict
“pistolet à impulsion électrique” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
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- 31
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According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Arme individuelle permettant de paralyser une personne par l’envoi d’une impulsion électrique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pistolet à impulsion électrique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pis.tɔ.le a ɛ̃.pyl.sjɔ̃ e.lɛk.tʁik\ |
| Letters | 31 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pistolet à impulsion électrique” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pistolet à impulsion électrique is 31 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pis.tɔ.le a ɛ̃.pyl.sjɔ̃ e.lɛk.tʁik\. 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: "Arme individuelle permettant de paralyser une personne par l’envoi d’une impulsion électrique.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pistolet à impulsion électrique, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pistolet à impulsion électrique, spelled P-I-S-T-O-L-E-T- -À- -I-M-P-U-L-S-I-O-N- -É-L-E-C-T-R-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Arme individuelle permettant de paralyser une personne par l’envoi d’une impulsion électrique.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-I-S-T-O-L-E-T- -À- -I-M-P-U-L-S-I-O-N- -É-L-E-C-T-R-I-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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