boîte de Pandore
Letters
16 characters
Language
French
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boîte de Pandore is aFrenchnoun. It means: Boîte contenant tous les maux de l’humanité et qui fut apportée et ouverte par Pandore. Pronounced \bwat də pɑ̃.dɔʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boîte de Pandore |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bwat də pɑ̃.dɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for boîte de Pandore is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bwat də pɑ̃.dɔʁ\. 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 boîte de Pandore 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 boîte de Pandore, spelled B-O-Î-T-E- -D-E- -P-A-N-D-O-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Boîte contenant tous les maux de l’humanité et qui fut apportée et ouverte par Pandore.
- 2Source de problèmes complexes et infinis donnant lieu à la zizanie.
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