acide gras
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10 characters
Language
French
word origin
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acide gras is aFrenchnoun. It means: Molécule organique qui entre dans la composition des graisses animales et végétales et possède une longue chaîne carbonée, le plus souvent linéaire, terminée par une fonction acide carboxylique. Pronounced \a.sid ɡʁa\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acide gras |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.sid ɡʁa\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for acide gras is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.sid ɡʁa\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for acide gras 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 acide gras, spelled A-C-I-D-E- -G-R-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Molécule organique qui entre dans la composition des graisses animales et végétales et possède une longue chaîne carbonée, le plus souvent linéaire, terminée par une fonction acide carboxylique.
- 2Tout acide carboxylique linéaire, indépendamment de la longueur de la chaîne carbonée.
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