cadran lunaire
The verdict
“cadran lunaire” 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
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Instrument servant à mesurer le temps grâce à l’ombre d’un style projetée par la lune sur une surface plane.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cadran lunaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.dʁɑ̃ ly.nɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cadran lunaire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cadran lunaire is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.dʁɑ̃ ly.nɛʁ\. 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: "Instrument servant à mesurer le temps grâce à l’ombre d’un style projetée par la lune sur une surface plane.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cadran lunaire 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 lunaire, spelled C-A-D-R-A-N- -L-U-N-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrument servant à mesurer le temps grâce à l’ombre d’un style projetée par la lune sur une surface plane.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-D-R-A-N- -L-U-N-A-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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