boulet de canon
Letters
15 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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Confusables
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boulet de canon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Boule de pierre ou de métal fondu, de différentes grosseurs, dont on chargeait les canons. Pronounced \bu.lɛ də ka.nɔ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boulet de canon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.lɛ də ka.nɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for boulet de canon is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bu.lɛ də ka.nɔ̃\. 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 boulet de canon 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 boulet de canon, spelled B-O-U-L-E-T- -D-E- -C-A-N-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Boule de pierre ou de métal fondu, de différentes grosseurs, dont on chargeait les canons.
- 2Couroupita guianensis.
- 3Ballon envoyé avec beaucoup de force.
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