auberge espagnole
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17 characters
Language
French
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auberge espagnole is aFrenchnoun. It means: Auberge où l'on ne sert pas à manger, où l’on ne mange que ce que l’on a apporté. Pronounced \o.bɛʁ.ʒ‿ɛs.pa.ɲɔl\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | auberge espagnole |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.bɛʁ.ʒ‿ɛs.pa.ɲɔl\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for auberge espagnole is 17 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o.bɛʁ.ʒ‿ɛs.pa.ɲɔl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for auberge espagnole 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 auberge espagnole, spelled A-U-B-E-R-G-E- -E-S-P-A-G-N-O-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Auberge où l'on ne sert pas à manger, où l’on ne mange que ce que l’on a apporté.
- 2Repas qui consiste à manger ce que chaque convive a apporté.
- 3Idée à la mode, un peu creuse, où chacun comprend le sens qu’il amène.
- 4Groupe, parti ou liste électorale composite, dont les participants ou membres proviennent d’horizons divers et variés, voire initialement opposés
- 5Ensemble hétéroclite, sans unité.
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