accent circonflexe
Letters
18 characters
Language
French
word origin
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accent circonflexe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Signe d’accentuation qui se place sur la dernière ou sur l’avant-dernière syllabe d’un mot. Pronounced \ak.sɑ̃ siʁ.kɔ̃.flɛks\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accent circonflexe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ak.sɑ̃ siʁ.kɔ̃.flɛks\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for accent circonflexe is 18 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ak.sɑ̃ siʁ.kɔ̃.flɛks\. 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 accent circonflexe 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 accent circonflexe, spelled A-C-C-E-N-T- -C-I-R-C-O-N-F-L-E-X-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Signe d’accentuation qui se place sur la dernière ou sur l’avant-dernière syllabe d’un mot.
- 2Signe d’accentuation en forme de V renversé ‹ ◌̂ › dont on se sert principalement pour marquer les voyelles qui étaient devenues longues par suite de la suppression d’une autre voyelle ou d’une consonne qui les suivait.
- 3Dont la forme évoque celle d’un accent circonflexe.
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