bacille de Hansen

/\ba.sil də an.sɛn\/ noun

Letters

17 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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bacille de Hansen is aFrenchnoun. It means: Bactérie responsable de la lèpre chez l’homme et le tatou, bacille intracellulaire. Pronounced \ba.sil də an.sɛn\.

Key facts for bacille de Hansen
PropertyValue
Headwordbacille de Hansen
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ba.sil də an.sɛn\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

bacille de Hansen 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 bacille de Hansen is 17 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.sil də an.sɛn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Bactérie responsable de la lèpre chez l’homme et le tatou, bacille intracellulaire.".

No misspelling variants are generated for bacille de Hansen 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 bacille de Hansen, spelled B-A-C-I-L-L-E- -D-E- -H-A-N-S-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Bactérie responsable de la lèpre chez l’homme et le tatou, bacille intracellulaire.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bacille de Hansen"?
"bacille de Hansen" is spelled B-A-C-I-L-L-E- -D-E- -H-A-N-S-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ba.sil də an.sɛn\.
What does "bacille de Hansen" mean?
As a noun, "bacille de Hansen" means: Bactérie responsable de la lèpre chez l’homme et le tatou, bacille intracellulaire.
How do you pronounce "bacille de Hansen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bacille de Hansen" is \ba.sil də an.sɛn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bacille de Hansen" come from?
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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.