zone démilitarisée
\zon de.mi.li.ta.ʁi.ze\
The verdict
“zone démilitarisée” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Zone géographique située entre deux territoires occupés par des armées ou groupes d’armées, où l’activité militaire est interdite ou très fortement réduite, habituellement à la suite d’un traité de...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zone démilitarisée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \zon de.mi.li.ta.ʁi.ze\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “zone démilitarisée” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for zone démilitarisée is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \zon de.mi.li.ta.ʁi.ze\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for zone démilitarisée in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is zone démilitarisée, spelled Z-O-N-E- -D-É-M-I-L-I-T-A-R-I-S-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Zone géographique située entre deux territoires occupés par des armées ou groupes d’armées, où l’activité militaire est interdite ou très fortement réduite, habituellement à la suite d’un traité de paix, d’un armistice ou de tout autre accord bilatéral ou multilatéral.
- 2Glacis (militaire), espace-tampon ménagé par une puissance autour de ses frontières par le contrôle de régions, voire de pays, limitrophes, afin d'optimiser la défense de son territoire, comme dans le cas de la Rhénanie.
- 3Sous-réseau séparé du réseau local, et isolé de celui-ci et d’Internet par un pare-feu.
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Using “zone démilitarisée”
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- The one correct French spelling is Z-O-N-E- -D-É-M-I-L-I-T-A-R-I-S-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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