abat-jour
Letters
9 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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abat-jour is aFrenchnoun. It means: Cadre ou réflecteur en papier ou en tissu pourvu souvent d’une armature en métal que l’on place sur les lampes ou à tout autre éclairage pour diriger la lumière tout en protégeant les yeux de l’ébl... Pronounced \a.ba.ʒuʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abat-jour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ba.ʒuʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for abat-jour is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ba.ʒuʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for abat-jour 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 abat-jour, spelled A-B-A-T---J-O-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cadre ou réflecteur en papier ou en tissu pourvu souvent d’une armature en métal que l’on place sur les lampes ou à tout autre éclairage pour diriger la lumière tout en protégeant les yeux de l’éblouissement.
- 2Volet ou claire-voie que l’on place devant les ouvertures des habitations pour arrêter les rayons du soleil ou les insectes.
- 3Sorte de store ou de jalousie, constitué de lattes en bois, posé à l’extérieur de fenêtres à Lyon.
- 4Auvent.
- 5Fenêtre disposée de manière à diriger le jour obliquement de haut en bas.
- 6Forme qui protège de la lumière du soleil.
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