barre oblique inverse

/\ba.ʁ‿ɔ.bli.k‿ɛ̃.vɛʁs\/ noun

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21 characters

Language

French

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barre oblique inverse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Signe sous la forme « \ ». Pronounced \ba.ʁ‿ɔ.bli.k‿ɛ̃.vɛʁs\.

Key facts for barre oblique inverse
PropertyValue
Headwordbarre oblique inverse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ba.ʁ‿ɔ.bli.k‿ɛ̃.vɛʁs\
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

barre oblique inverse is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for barre oblique inverse is 21 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.ʁ‿ɔ.bli.k‿ɛ̃.vɛʁs\. 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: "Signe sous la forme « \ ».".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for barre oblique inverse 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 barre oblique inverse, spelled B-A-R-R-E- -O-B-L-I-Q-U-E- -I-N-V-E-R-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Signe sous la forme « \ ».

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "barre oblique inverse"?
"barre oblique inverse" is spelled B-A-R-R-E- -O-B-L-I-Q-U-E- -I-N-V-E-R-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ba.ʁ‿ɔ.bli.k‿ɛ̃.vɛʁs\.
What does "barre oblique inverse" mean?
As a noun, "barre oblique inverse" means: Signe sous la forme « \ ».
How do you pronounce "barre oblique inverse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "barre oblique inverse" is \ba.ʁ‿ɔ.bli.k‿ɛ̃.vɛʁs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "barre oblique inverse" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.