assiette anglaise

/\a.sjɛ.t‿ɑ̃.ɡlɛz\/ noun

Letters

17 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

assiette anglaise is aFrenchnoun. It means: Plat froid regroupant plusieurs sortes de viandes froides accompagnées de condiments. Pronounced \a.sjɛ.t‿ɑ̃.ɡlɛz\.

Key facts for assiette anglaise
PropertyValue
Headwordassiette anglaise
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.sjɛ.t‿ɑ̃.ɡlɛz\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

assiette anglaise 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 assiette anglaise is 17 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.sjɛ.t‿ɑ̃.ɡlɛz\. 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 assiette anglaise 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 assiette anglaise, spelled A-S-S-I-E-T-T-E- -A-N-G-L-A-I-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Plat froid regroupant plusieurs sortes de viandes froides accompagnées de condiments.
  2. 2
    Assortiment sans surprise.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "assiette anglaise"?
"assiette anglaise" is spelled A-S-S-I-E-T-T-E- -A-N-G-L-A-I-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.sjɛ.t‿ɑ̃.ɡlɛz\.
What does "assiette anglaise" mean?
As a noun, "assiette anglaise" means: Plat froid regroupant plusieurs sortes de viandes froides accompagnées de condiments.
How do you pronounce "assiette anglaise"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "assiette anglaise" is \a.sjɛ.t‿ɑ̃.ɡlɛz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.