chemin de croix
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Language
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chemin de croix is aFrenchnoun. It means: Le chemin que Jésus-Christ parcourut en portant sa croix, de Jérusalem au calvaire, selon la doctrine chrétienne. Pronounced \ʃə.mɛ̃ də kʁwa\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chemin de croix |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃə.mɛ̃ də kʁwa\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for chemin de croix is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃə.mɛ̃ də kʁwa\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for chemin de croix in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 chemin de croix, spelled C-H-E-M-I-N- -D-E- -C-R-O-I-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Le chemin que Jésus-Christ parcourut en portant sa croix, de Jérusalem au calvaire, selon la doctrine chrétienne.
- 2Suite de quatorze bas-reliefs ou tableaux placés dans une église ou dans un lieu de pèlerinage et représentant les diverses scènes de la Passion.
- 3Rite catholique qui consiste à s’arrêter et prier devant chacun de ces tableaux ou bas-reliefs indiquant les diverses stations du chemin de croix.
- 4Trajet, parcours ou démarche, difficile, pénible, douloureux, etc.
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