à blanc
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7 characters
Language
French
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à blanc is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui ne contient que la poudre et une bourre légère, et destiné à ne faire que du bruit, en parlant de munitions. Pronounced \a blɑ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | à blanc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \a blɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for à blanc is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a blɑ̃\. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à blanc 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 à blanc, spelled À- -B-L-A-N-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui ne contient que la poudre et une bourre légère, et destiné à ne faire que du bruit, en parlant de munitions.
- 2Marche à blanc : mise en production sans ouvrir au public afin de tester exactement dans les conditions et l’environnement cible. Dans les transports en commun, il s'agit de la phase finale des essais précédant l'ouverture d'une ligne de transport.
- 3Se dit d'un assemblage, d'un montage de pièces (bois, plastique, métal, etc...) sans que celles-ci ne soient soudées ou collées entre elles, cela est destiné à voir si l'ensemble est correctement dimensionné et positionné.
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