bigorne
Letters
7 characters
Language
French
word origin
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bigorne is aFrenchnoun. It means: Enclume de forgeron dont les deux extrémités sont pointues comme deux cornes et qui permettait de cintrer ou de percer les grosses pièces à forger. Pronounced \bi.ɡɔʁn\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bigorne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.ɡɔʁn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for bigorne is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bi.ɡɔʁn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for bigorne 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 bigorne, spelled B-I-G-O-R-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Enclume de forgeron dont les deux extrémités sont pointues comme deux cornes et qui permettait de cintrer ou de percer les grosses pièces à forger.
- 2Enclume en usage chez les orfèvres qui varie de forme suivant sa destination.
- 3Cette corne elle-même. ^([1])
- 4Banc de corroyeur ^([1]).
- 5Ciseau qui servait aux calfats à couper les clous qui, traversant les bordages, pouvaient gêner le calfatage.
- 6Masse en bois utilisée pour le foulage des peaux mouillées.
- 7Bagarre, bataille, guerre.
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