service militaire
\sɛʁ.vis mi.li.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“service militaire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obligation de servir les armées de son pays, faite à tout homme (et parfois aux femmes) d’une certaine tranche d’âge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-service-militaire · service militaire · French
service militaire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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 | service militaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛʁ.vis mi.li.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
service militaire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛʁ.vis mi.li.tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Obligation de servir les armées de son pays, faite à tout homme (et parfois aux femmes) d’une certaine tranche d’âge.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for service militaire in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 service militaire, spelled S-E-R-V-I-C-E- -M-I-L-I-T-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Obligation de servir les armées de son pays, faite à tout homme (et parfois aux femmes) d’une certaine tranche d’âge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how service militaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En général, les Bas-Bretons ne s’acclimataient pas si facilement. On en voit qui, après leur service militaire, oublient en rentrant au pays tout ce qu’ils ont appris au régiment, y compris la langue française.
Le service militaire, qui avait été un devoir de la noblesse, était abandonné à ceux qui ne pouvaient faire l’achat d’un remplaçant.
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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.