bagasse
Letters
7 characters
Language
French
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bagasse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Résidu de la canne à sucre qu’on a passée par le moulin pour en tirer le suc. Pronounced \ba.ɡas\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bagasse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ɡas\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bagasse is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.ɡas\. 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 bagasse 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 bagasse, spelled B-A-G-A-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Résidu de la canne à sucre qu’on a passée par le moulin pour en tirer le suc.
- 2Tiges de la plante qui fournit l’indigo, quand on les retire de la cuve après la fermentation.
- 3Marc de raisin ou d'olives à la sortie du pressoir.
- 4Genre d'arbre monospécifique de la forêt amazonienne, et espèce pionnière laticifère à fruit comestible, appartenant à la famille des moracées (e.g. mûrier), dont le bois imputrescible et d'un beau jaune doré, ainsi que la fructification à contre-saison en font une essence de très grande valeur dans les écosystèmes guyanais et brésilien (Badassa guianensis; appelé également bagassier).
- 5Franges, falbalas usés.
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