caleçon long
Letters
12 characters
Language
French
word origin
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0
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caleçon long is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sous-vêtement masculin, moulant destiné à couvrir l'intégralité des cuisses et des jambes. Il est destiné généralement à être porté par temps très froid sous un pantalon. Quand il est destiné à êtr... Pronounced \kal.sɔ̃ lɔ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caleçon long |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kal.sɔ̃ lɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for caleçon long is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kal.sɔ̃ lɔ̃\. 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 caleçon long 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 caleçon long, spelled C-A-L-E-Ç-O-N- -L-O-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sous-vêtement masculin, moulant destiné à couvrir l'intégralité des cuisses et des jambes. Il est destiné généralement à être porté par temps très froid sous un pantalon. Quand il est destiné à être porté à la vue de tous il s'agit d'un megging.
- 2Vêtement féminin, sorte de pantalon moulant. Depuis le début du XX^(ème) siècle est apparu le terme legging pour désigner ce type de vêtement.
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