blanc comme un linge
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20 characters
Language
French
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blanc comme un linge is anFrenchadj. It means: Terrifié, très effrayé. Se dit de quelqu’un qui a blêmi subitement. Pronounced \blɑ̃ kɔ.m‿œ̃ lɛ̃ʒ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blanc comme un linge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \blɑ̃ kɔ.m‿œ̃ lɛ̃ʒ\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for blanc comme un linge is 20 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \blɑ̃ kɔ.m‿œ̃ lɛ̃ʒ\. 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 misspelling variants are generated for blanc comme un linge in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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 un linge, spelled B-L-A-N-C- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -L-I-N-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Terrifié, très effrayé. Se dit de quelqu’un qui a blêmi subitement.
- 2Se dit de quelqu'un qui a la peau pâle.
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