breadth
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7 characters
Language
French
word origin
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breadth is aFrenchnoun. It means: Largeur, mesure de largeur. Pronounced \ˈbɹɛdθ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | breadth |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈbɹɛdθ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for breadth is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈbɹɛdθ\. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for breadth in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 breadth, spelled B-R-E-A-D-T-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Largeur, mesure de largeur.
- 2Étendue, portée, particulièrement en parlant des connaissances ou des compétences.
- 3Algorithme de parcours en largeur (informatique) Breadth-First Search (BFS) ou breadth tout court.
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