cagneux
Letters
7 characters
Language
French
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cagneux is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui a les jambes tournées en dedans, rapprochées au niveau des genoux et écartées au niveau des pieds. Pronounced \ka.ɲø\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cagneux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ka.ɲø\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for cagneux is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.ɲø\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for cagneux 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 cagneux, spelled C-A-G-N-E-U-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui a les jambes tournées en dedans, rapprochées au niveau des genoux et écartées au niveau des pieds.
- 2Tournés en dedans en parlant des genoux, des jambes.
- 3Qui a les pieds tournés vers l’intérieur en parlant des animaux, notamment des chevaux.
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