chanterelle
Letters
11 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
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similar word pairs
chanterelle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Corde d’un violon, d’une basse, etc., qui est la plus déliée et qui a le son le plus aigu. Pronounced \ʃɑ̃.tʁɛl\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chanterelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɑ̃.tʁɛl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for chanterelle is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃɑ̃.tʁɛl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for chanterelle 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 chanterelle, spelled C-H-A-N-T-E-R-E-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Corde d’un violon, d’une basse, etc., qui est la plus déliée et qui a le son le plus aigu.
- 2Bouteille de verre mince, dont on tire des sons en soufflant dessus.
- 3Son donné par cette corde ou cette bouteille.
- 4Oiselle que l’on met dans une cage au milieu d’un bois ou d’une campagne, afin que par son chant elle attire les autres oiseaux dans les filets tendus pour les prendre.
- 5Partie de l’arçon du chapelier.
- 6Petite bobine des tireurs d’or que l’on nomme aussi chantarille ou chanterille
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