canal déférent
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Language
French
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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\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canal déférent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.nal de.fe.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Canal 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).
- 2Canal qui transporte les spermatozoïdes issus des testicules (17) jusqu'à l’urètre (13) au niveau de la prostate.
- 3Chez les mammifères, canal qui transporte les spermatozoïdes depuis l'épididyme jusqu'à la vessie.
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