âge de pierre
Letters
13 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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âge de pierre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Période de la préhistoire où l’humanité n’a eu pour instruments de travail et de guerre que des pierres ou des silex façonnés. Elle eut lieu entre 2,5 millions d’années av. J.-C. et 2500 av. J.-C. Pronounced \ɑʒ də pjɛʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | âge de pierre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑʒ də pjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for âge de pierre is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑʒ də pjɛʁ\. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for âge de pierre 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 de pierre, spelled Â-G-E- -D-E- -P-I-E-R-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Période de la préhistoire où l’humanité n’a eu pour instruments de travail et de guerre que des pierres ou des silex façonnés. Elle eut lieu entre 2,5 millions d’années av. J.-C. et 2500 av. J.-C.
- 2Époque primitive.
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