cabinet de curiosités
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21 characters
Language
French
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cabinet de curiosités is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pièce où sont exposés des objets collectionnés, avec un certain goût pour l’hétéroclisme et l’inédit. Pronounced \ka.bi.net də ky.ʁjo.zi.te\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cabinet de curiosités |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.bi.net də ky.ʁjo.zi.te\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for cabinet de curiosités is 21 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.bi.net də ky.ʁjo.zi.te\. 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: "Pièce où sont exposés des objets collectionnés, avec un certain goût pour l’hétéroclisme et l’inédit.".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cabinet de curiosités 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 cabinet de curiosités, spelled C-A-B-I-N-E-T- -D-E- -C-U-R-I-O-S-I-T-É-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pièce où sont exposés des objets collectionnés, avec un certain goût pour l’hétéroclisme et l’inédit.
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