belle-mère
Letters
10 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
belle-mère is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mère d'un des époux par rapport à l’autre conjoint. Pronounced \bɛl mɛʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | belle-mère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛl mɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for belle-mère is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɛl mɛʁ\. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for belle-mère 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 belle-mère, spelled B-E-L-L-E---M-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mère d'un des époux par rapport à l’autre conjoint.
- 2Pour les enfants d’union(s) précédente(s), la nouvelle épouse de l'un de leurs parents.
- 3Germaine, marâtre; en politique, un ex-politicien qui continue à vouloir exercer une influence sur les actions de ses successeurs à travers ses opinions et interventions publiques ou de coulisse.
- 4Grande attache à papier en fil de fer plié.
- 5Remorque
- 6Lorsqu’un le tissu à coudre est trop épais, chute de tissu positionnée sous le pied de biche de la machine à coudre pour mettre le pied de biche à l’horizontale et faciliter la couture.
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