bras mort
Letters
9 characters
Language
French
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bras mort is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie relictuelle de l’ancien cours d’un cours d’eau, dans lequel l’eau ne passe plus. Pronounced \bʁa mɔʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bras mort |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁa mɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for bras mort is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁa mɔʁ\. 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 bras mort 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 bras mort, spelled B-R-A-S- -M-O-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie relictuelle de l’ancien cours d’un cours d’eau, dans lequel l’eau ne passe plus.
- 2Canalisation où l’eau stagne pendant une longue période (tuyau pincé à son extrémité suite à la suppression d’un robinet, canalisation d’un robinet qui ne sert jamais, canalisation en attente de raccord).
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