amas de galaxies

/\a.ma də ɡa.lak.si\/ noun

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

word origin

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amas de galaxies is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ensemble d’une centaine de galaxies liées par la gravité. On appelle un plus petit ensemble un groupe de galaxies. Pronounced \a.ma də ɡa.lak.si\.

Key facts for amas de galaxies
PropertyValue
Headwordamas de galaxies
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.ma də ɡa.lak.si\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

amas de galaxies 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 amas de galaxies is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ma də ɡa.lak.si\. 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: "Ensemble d’une centaine de galaxies liées par la gravité. On appelle un plus petit ensemble un groupe de galaxies.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for amas de galaxies 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 amas de galaxies, spelled A-M-A-S- -D-E- -G-A-L-A-X-I-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ensemble d’une centaine de galaxies liées par la gravité. On appelle un plus petit ensemble un groupe de galaxies.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "amas de galaxies"?
"amas de galaxies" is spelled A-M-A-S- -D-E- -G-A-L-A-X-I-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ma də ɡa.lak.si\.
What does "amas de galaxies" mean?
As a noun, "amas de galaxies" means: Ensemble d’une centaine de galaxies liées par la gravité. On appelle un plus petit ensemble un groupe de galaxies.
How do you pronounce "amas de galaxies"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "amas de galaxies" is \a.ma də ɡa.lak.si\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "amas de galaxies" come from?
"amas de galaxies" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.