borborygme
Letters
10 characters
Language
French
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0
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borborygme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Bruit que font entendre les gaz contenus dans l’abdomen quand ils se déplacent au milieu des liquides contenus dans les intestins. Pronounced \bɔʁ.bɔ.ʁiɡm\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | borborygme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔʁ.bɔ.ʁiɡm\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for borborygme is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɔʁ.bɔ.ʁiɡm\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for borborygme 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 borborygme, spelled B-O-R-B-O-R-Y-G-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bruit que font entendre les gaz contenus dans l’abdomen quand ils se déplacent au milieu des liquides contenus dans les intestins.
- 2Bruit de gaz ou de liquides à l’intérieur de tuyaux ou de conduites.
- 3Paroles incompréhensibles.
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