pistolet-mitrailleur
\pis.tɔ.lɛ mi.tʁa.jœʁ\
The verdict
“pistolet-mitrailleur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme de mitraillette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pistolet-mitrailleur · pistolet-mitrailleur · French
pistolet-mitrailleur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 20 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pistolet-mitrailleur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pis.tɔ.lɛ mi.tʁa.jœʁ\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
pistolet-mitrailleur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pis.tɔ.lɛ mi.tʁa.jœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonyme de mitraillette.".
pistolet-mitrailleur doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is pistolet-mitrailleur, spelled P-I-S-T-O-L-E-T---M-I-T-R-A-I-L-L-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de mitraillette.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pistolet-mitrailleur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le pistolet-mitrailleur est une arme produite à grande échelle pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Nadine Lemercier sortit la première, suivie de l’adjudant-chef Greudin armé du pistolet-mitrailleur.
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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.