caatinga
Letters
8 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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caatinga is aFrenchnoun. It means: Biome de savane néotropicale épineuse très dense, de type essentiellement xérique mais constitué de zones plus sèches ("sertão") ou plus humides ("agreste"), propre à la pointe nord-est du Brésil, ... Pronounced \ka.tɛ̃.ɡɑ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caatinga |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.tɛ̃.ɡɑ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for caatinga is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.tɛ̃.ɡɑ\. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for caatinga 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 caatinga, spelled C-A-A-T-I-N-G-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Biome de savane néotropicale épineuse très dense, de type essentiellement xérique mais constitué de zones plus sèches ("sertão") ou plus humides ("agreste"), propre à la pointe nord-est du Brésil, couvrant près de 10% de la superficie totale du pays, de biodiversité élevée, dont la végétation est largement composée de xérophytes (cactacées, buissons épineux, etc.) et dont la faune, également riche, comporte de nombreuses espèces endémiques et rares de mammifères (e.g. titi blond (Callicebus barbarabrownae)) et d'oiseaux (e.g. l'ara de Spix (Cyanopsitta spixii)).
- 2Région précise où l'on retrouve ce type de biome; sous-type de ce biome.
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