âge bête

/\ɑʒ bɛt\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

âge bête is aFrenchnoun. It means: Première partie de l’adolescence, comprise entre 12 et 16 ans environ, où les adolescents se montrent souvent imbus d’eux-mêmes et complètement immatures. Pronounced \ɑʒ bɛt\.

Key facts for âge bête
PropertyValue
Headwordâge bête
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɑʒ bɛt\
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for âge bête is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑʒ bɛt\. 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: "Première partie de l’adolescence, comprise entre 12 et 16 ans environ, où les adolescents se montrent souvent imbus d’eux-mêmes et complètement immatures.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for âge bête 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 âge bête, spelled Â-G-E- -B-Ê-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première partie de l’adolescence, comprise entre 12 et 16 ans environ, où les adolescents se montrent souvent imbus d’eux-mêmes et complètement immatures.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "âge bête"?
"âge bête" is spelled Â-G-E- -B-Ê-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑʒ bɛt\.
What does "âge bête" mean?
As a noun, "âge bête" means: Première partie de l’adolescence, comprise entre 12 et 16 ans environ, où les adolescents se montrent souvent imbus d’eux-mêmes et complètement immatures.
How do you pronounce "âge bête"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "âge bête" is \ɑʒ bɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "âge bête" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.