cerf-volant
Letters
11 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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cerf-volant is aFrenchnoun. It means: Engin volant sans pilote ni passager qui tient en l’air grâce à la force de pression que le vent exerce sur la surface de sa voilure et qui est manœuvré ou simplement peut aussi etre rattaché au so... Pronounced \sɛʁ.vɔ.lɑ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cerf-volant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛʁ.vɔ.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for cerf-volant is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛʁ.vɔ.lɑ̃\. 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 cerf-volant 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 cerf-volant, spelled C-E-R-F---V-O-L-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Engin volant sans pilote ni passager qui tient en l’air grâce à la force de pression que le vent exerce sur la surface de sa voilure et qui est manœuvré ou simplement peut aussi etre rattaché au sol à l’aide d’un ou plusieurs fils, traditionnellement fait avec de l’étoffe ou du papier étendu et collé sur des baguettes.
- 2Forme géométrique ressemblant à un cerf-volant ; les deux définitions suivantes sont équivalentes :
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