1900

/\mil nœf sɑ̃\/ adj

Letters

4 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

1900 is anFrenchadj. It means: D’un style caractéristique des années entourant l’an 1900. Pronounced \mil nœf sɑ̃\.

Key facts for 1900
PropertyValue
Headword1900
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\mil nœf sɑ̃\
Letters4
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

1900 is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for 1900 is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mil nœf sɑ̃\. 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: "D’un style caractéristique des années entourant l’an 1900.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for 1900 in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 1900, spelled 1-9-0-0, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    D’un style caractéristique des années entourant l’an 1900.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "1900"?
"1900" is spelled 1-9-0-0. The IPA pronunciation is \mil nœf sɑ̃\.
What does "1900" mean?
As an adj, "1900" means: D’un style caractéristique des années entourant l’an 1900.
How do you pronounce "1900"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "1900" is \mil nœf sɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "1900" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.