capitaine de vaisseau
Letters
21 characters
Language
French
word origin
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capitaine de vaisseau is aFrenchnoun. It means: Grade donné dans la Marine nationale française à un officier supérieur situé entre son supérieur hiérarchique, le contre-amiral, et son subordonné, le capitaine de frégate, correspondant à celui de... Pronounced \ka.pi.tɛn də vɛ.so\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capitaine de vaisseau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.pi.tɛn də vɛ.so\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for capitaine de vaisseau is 21 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.pi.tɛn də vɛ.so\. 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 capitaine de vaisseau 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 capitaine de vaisseau, spelled C-A-P-I-T-A-I-N-E- -D-E- -V-A-I-S-S-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Grade donné dans la Marine nationale française à un officier supérieur situé entre son supérieur hiérarchique, le contre-amiral, et son subordonné, le capitaine de frégate, correspondant à celui de colonel dans les autres armées. Le code OTAN : OF-5.
- 2Grade d’officier de la Marine royale canadienne.
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