carré magique

/\ka.ʁe ma.ʒik\/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

carré magique is aFrenchnoun. It means: Grille carrée dont les cases contiennent des nombres arrangés de telle sorte que la somme de chaque ligne, de chaque colonne et des deux diagonales principales donne un nombre identique. Pronounced \ka.ʁe ma.ʒik\.

Key facts for carré magique
PropertyValue
Headwordcarré magique
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.ʁe ma.ʒik\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

carré magique 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 carré magique is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.ʁe ma.ʒik\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Grille carrée dont les cases contiennent des nombres arrangés de telle sorte que la somme de chaque ligne, de chaque colonne et des deux diagonales principales donne un nombre identique.".

No misspelling variants are generated for carré magique 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 carré magique, spelled C-A-R-R-É- -M-A-G-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Grille carrée dont les cases contiennent des nombres arrangés de telle sorte que la somme de chaque ligne, de chaque colonne et des deux diagonales principales donne un nombre identique.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "carré magique"?
"carré magique" is spelled C-A-R-R-É- -M-A-G-I-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.ʁe ma.ʒik\.
What does "carré magique" mean?
As a noun, "carré magique" means: Grille carrée dont les cases contiennent des nombres arrangés de telle sorte que la somme de chaque ligne, de chaque colonne et des deux diagonales principales donne un nombre identique.
How do you pronounce "carré magique"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "carré magique" is \ka.ʁe ma.ʒik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "carré magique" 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.