arrière-faix

/\a.ʁjɛʁ.fɛ\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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Confusables

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similar word pairs

arrière-faix is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qui reste dans la matrice après la sortie du fœtus, c’est-à-dire le placenta, le cordon ombilical et les membranes qui enveloppaient le fœtus. Pronounced \a.ʁjɛʁ.fɛ\.

Key facts for arrière-faix
PropertyValue
Headwordarrière-faix
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.ʁjɛʁ.fɛ\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for arrière-faix is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ʁjɛʁ.fɛ\. 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 arrière-faix 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 arrière-faix, spelled A-R-R-I-È-R-E---F-A-I-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ce qui reste dans la matrice après la sortie du fœtus, c’est-à-dire le placenta, le cordon ombilical et les membranes qui enveloppaient le fœtus.
  2. 2
    L'indésirable qui accompagne la naissance d'un monde.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "arrière-faix"?
"arrière-faix" is spelled A-R-R-I-È-R-E---F-A-I-X. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ʁjɛʁ.fɛ\.
What does "arrière-faix" mean?
As a noun, "arrière-faix" means: Ce qui reste dans la matrice après la sortie du fœtus, c’est-à-dire le placenta, le cordon ombilical et les membranes qui enveloppaient le fœtus.
How do you pronounce "arrière-faix"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "arrière-faix" is \a.ʁjɛʁ.fɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "arrière-faix" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.