C-string
Letters
8 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
C-string is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sous-vêtement — pour homme ou pour femme — minimaliste composé d’un ensemble de baleine qui passe à l’entrejambe et d’une pièce de tissus qui cache les organes génitaux externes. Pronounced \se.stʁiŋ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | C-string |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.stʁiŋ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for C-string is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \se.stʁiŋ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Sous-vêtement — pour homme ou pour femme — minimaliste composé d’un ensemble de baleine qui passe à l’entrejambe et d’une pièce de tissus qui cache les organes génitaux externes.".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for C-string 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 C-string, spelled C---S-T-R-I-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sous-vêtement — pour homme ou pour femme — minimaliste composé d’un ensemble de baleine qui passe à l’entrejambe et d’une pièce de tissus qui cache les organes génitaux externes.
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