au-dessus
Letters
9 characters
Language
French
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au-dessus is anFrenchadv. It means: Plus haut que. Pronounced \o də.sy\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | au-dessus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | \o də.sy\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for au-dessus is 9 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o də.sy\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for au-dessus 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 au-dessus, spelled A-U---D-E-S-S-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plus haut que.
- 2En amont.
- 3Toute espèce de supériorité, de prééminence, ou d’excès.
- 4Se dit, dans le sens qui précède, pour marquer une supériorité de nombre, de durée, de valeur, etc.
- 5Ce dont une personne se dégage, s’affranchit.
- 6Ce qu’une personne dédaigne ou brave, ce dont elle ne se met point en peine.
- 7Tant au sens physique qu’au sens moral, ce qui est nuisible en soi, mais dont l’effet ou l’influence ne saurait atteindre la personne ou la chose dont on parle.
- 8Position d'un comédien qui se trouve placé sur la scène derrière un meuble ou un objet vis-à-vis du public.
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