cadran de 12 heures
The verdict
“cadran de 12 heures” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Cadran ordinaire dont l’aiguille des heures effectue un tour complet en 12 heures.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cadran de 12 heures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.dʁɑ̃ də du.z‿œʁ\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cadran de 12 heures” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cadran de 12 heures is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.dʁɑ̃ də du.z‿œʁ\. 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 cadran de 12 heures 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 cadran de 12 heures, spelled C-A-D-R-A-N- -D-E- -1-2- -H-E-U-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cadran ordinaire dont l’aiguille des heures effectue un tour complet en 12 heures.
- 2Convention de mesure du temps dans laquelle le jour est divisé en deux moitiés de 12 heures chacune, la première commençant à minuit et la seconde à midi (pour distinguer les deux, on dit du matin pour la première et de l’après-midi ou du soir pour la seconde).
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-D-R-A-N- -D-E- -1-2- -H-E-U-R-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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