année civile

/\a.ne si.vil\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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année civile is aFrenchnoun. It means: Année du premier janvier au 31 décembre, des calendriers juliens et grégoriens. Pronounced \a.ne si.vil\.

Key facts for année civile
PropertyValue
Headwordannée civile
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.ne si.vil\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

année civile 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 année civile is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ne si.vil\. 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 année civile 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 année civile, spelled A-N-N-É-E- -C-I-V-I-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Année du premier janvier au 31 décembre, des calendriers juliens et grégoriens.
  2. 2
    Année du premier au dernier jour d'un autre calendrier non-religieux.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "année civile"?
"année civile" is spelled A-N-N-É-E- -C-I-V-I-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ne si.vil\.
What does "année civile" mean?
As a noun, "année civile" means: Année du premier janvier au 31 décembre, des calendriers juliens et grégoriens.
How do you pronounce "année civile"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "année civile" is \a.ne si.vil\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "année civile" 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.