cariatide
Letters
9 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
cariatide is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom des figures employées par les architectes, au lieu de colonnes ou de pilastres, pour servir de soutien à une architrave qu’elles portent sur leur tête. Pronounced \ka.ʁja.tid\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cariatide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁja.tid\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for cariatide is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.ʁja.tid\. 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 cariatide 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 cariatide, spelled C-A-R-I-A-T-I-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom des figures employées par les architectes, au lieu de colonnes ou de pilastres, pour servir de soutien à une architrave qu’elles portent sur leur tête.
- 2Ordre d’architecture dans lequel les cariatides sont employées au lieu de colonnes.
- 3Danse lacédémonienne en l’honneur de Diane.
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