bijou de famille

/\bi.ʒu də fa.mij\/ noun

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

bijou de famille is aFrenchnoun. It means: Joyau ; possession parmi les plus précieuses ou les plus chères. Pronounced \bi.ʒu də fa.mij\.

Key facts for bijou de famille
PropertyValue
Headwordbijou de famille
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bi.ʒu də fa.mij\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

bijou de famille 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 bijou de famille is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bi.ʒu də fa.mij\. 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: "Joyau ; possession parmi les plus précieuses ou les plus chères.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for bijou de famille 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 bijou de famille, spelled B-I-J-O-U- -D-E- -F-A-M-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Joyau ; possession parmi les plus précieuses ou les plus chères.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bijou de famille"?
"bijou de famille" is spelled B-I-J-O-U- -D-E- -F-A-M-I-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bi.ʒu də fa.mij\.
What does "bijou de famille" mean?
As a noun, "bijou de famille" means: Joyau ; possession parmi les plus précieuses ou les plus chères.
How do you pronounce "bijou de famille"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bijou de famille" is \bi.ʒu də fa.mij\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bijou de famille" 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.