blanc comme neige
Letters
17 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
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blanc comme neige is anFrenchadj. It means: D'une parfaite blancheur. Pronounced \blɑ̃ kɔm nɛʒ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blanc comme neige |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \blɑ̃ kɔm nɛʒ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for blanc comme neige is 17 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \blɑ̃ kɔm nɛʒ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for blanc comme neige 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 blanc comme neige, spelled B-L-A-N-C- -C-O-M-M-E- -N-E-I-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1D'une parfaite blancheur.
- 2Parfaitement innocent.
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