canal déférent

/\ka.nal de.fe.ʁɑ̃\/ noun

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

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canal déférent is aFrenchnoun. It means: Canal pair (15) des mammifères qui transporte les spermatozoïdes issus des testicules (17) depuis l’épididyme (16) jusqu'à l’urètre (13) au niveau de la prostate (12). Pronounced \ka.nal de.fe.ʁɑ̃\.

Key facts for canal déférent
PropertyValue
Headwordcanal déférent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.nal de.fe.ʁɑ̃\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

canal déférent is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for canal déférent is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.nal de.fe.ʁɑ̃\. 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 canal déférent 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 canal déférent, spelled C-A-N-A-L- -D-É-F-É-R-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Canal pair (15) des mammifères qui transporte les spermatozoïdes issus des testicules (17) depuis l’épididyme (16) jusqu'à l’urètre (13) au niveau de la prostate (12).
  2. 2
    Canal qui transporte les spermatozoïdes issus des testicules (17) jusqu'à l’urètre (13) au niveau de la prostate.
  3. 3
    Chez les mammifères, canal qui transporte les spermatozoïdes depuis l'épididyme jusqu'à la vessie.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "canal déférent"?
"canal déférent" is spelled C-A-N-A-L- -D-É-F-É-R-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.nal de.fe.ʁɑ̃\.
What does "canal déférent" mean?
As a noun, "canal déférent" means: Canal pair (15) des mammifères qui transporte les spermatozoïdes issus des testicules (17) depuis l’épididyme (16) jusqu'à l’urètre (13) au niveau de la prostate (12).
How do you pronounce "canal déférent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "canal déférent" is \ka.nal de.fe.ʁɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "canal déférent" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.