bacchante
Letters
9 characters
Language
French
word origin
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bacchante is aFrenchnoun. It means: Prêtresse de Bacchus célébrant la fête des bacchanales. Pronounced \ba.kɑ̃t\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bacchante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.kɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for bacchante is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.kɑ̃t\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for bacchante 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 bacchante, spelled B-A-C-C-H-A-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Prêtresse de Bacchus célébrant la fête des bacchanales.
- 2Représentation artistique d’une telle prêtresse.
- 3Femme sans retenue, sans pudeur ; dévergondée.
- 4Type de moustache aux extrémités arrondies, toujours au pluriel.
- 5Papillon européen marron aux ocelles noirs cerclés de jaune (Lopinga achine).
- 6Nom vulgaire du Baccharis halimifolia (bacchante de Virginie), arbuste de la famille des astéracées et natif de la côte Est des États-Unis.
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