à usage unique

/\a y.za.ʒ‿y.nik\/ adj

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Language

French

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à usage unique is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui ne peut être utilisé qu’une seule fois et doit ensuite être jeté. Pronounced \a y.za.ʒ‿y.nik\.

Key facts for à usage unique
PropertyValue
Headwordà usage unique
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\a y.za.ʒ‿y.nik\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for à usage unique is 14 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a y.za.ʒ‿y.nik\. 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: "Qui ne peut être utilisé qu’une seule fois et doit ensuite être jeté.".

No misspelling variants are generated for à usage unique 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 à usage unique, spelled À- -U-S-A-G-E- -U-N-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui ne peut être utilisé qu’une seule fois et doit ensuite être jeté.

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How do you spell "à usage unique"?
"à usage unique" is spelled À- -U-S-A-G-E- -U-N-I-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a y.za.ʒ‿y.nik\.
What does "à usage unique" mean?
As an adj, "à usage unique" means: Qui ne peut être utilisé qu’une seule fois et doit ensuite être jeté.
How do you pronounce "à usage unique"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à usage unique" is \a y.za.ʒ‿y.nik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à usage unique" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.