puissance de feu
\pɥi.sɑ̃s də fø\
The verdict
“puissance de feu” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capacité de destruction et cadence de tir d’une arme à feu, d’un bâtiment ou d’une armée entière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-puissance-de-feu · puissance de feu · French
puissance de feu · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-7 7 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 | puissance de feu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɥi.sɑ̃s də fø\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
puissance de feu is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɥi.sɑ̃s də fø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for puissance de feu, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is puissance de feu, spelled P-U-I-S-S-A-N-C-E- -D-E- -F-E-U.
Definition
- 1Capacité de destruction et cadence de tir d’une arme à feu, d’un bâtiment ou d’une armée entière.
- 2Forte influence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how puissance de feu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Passé la surprise des premiers jours, le camp russe s’est montré plutôt avare en génie tactique, n’avançant que frontalement, grâce à l’écrasante supériorité de sa puissance de feu.
Parmi tous les groupes d’influence, celui des chasseurs, représenté par l’influent lobbyiste Thierry Coste, possède il est vrai une puissance de feu considérable.
This word in other languages
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.