assistant maternel
Letters
18 characters
Language
French
word origin
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assistant maternel is aFrenchnoun. It means: Terme générique pour désigner une personne qui s’occupe contre rémunération d’un ou plusieurs jeunes enfants, et qui recouvre le plus souvent les assistantes maternelles (femmes) mais aussi les hom... Pronounced \a.sis.tɑ̃ ma.tɛʁ.nɛl\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | assistant maternel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.sis.tɑ̃ ma.tɛʁ.nɛl\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for assistant maternel is 18 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.sis.tɑ̃ ma.tɛʁ.nɛl\. 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 assistant maternel 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 assistant maternel, spelled A-S-S-I-S-T-A-N-T- -M-A-T-E-R-N-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Terme générique pour désigner une personne qui s’occupe contre rémunération d’un ou plusieurs jeunes enfants, et qui recouvre le plus souvent les assistantes maternelles (femmes) mais aussi les hommes (Voir le néologisme ci-dessous). Dans les trois exemples qui suivent, assistant maternel ne veut pas dire que ce sont spécialement des hommes (malgré l’emploi du masculin) car il s’agit ici du terme générique.
- 2Professionnel qui garde un ou plusieurs jeunes enfants dans la journée.
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