chenillette
Letters
11 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
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chenillette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Plante fourragère de la famille des Fabacées (ou Légumineuses), ainsi nommée parce qu’elle produit une gousse roulée sur elle-même et de la figure d’une chenille. Genre Scorpiurus L. Pronounced \ʃə.ni.jɛt\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chenillette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃə.ni.jɛt\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for chenillette is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃə.ni.jɛt\. 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 misspelling variants are generated for chenillette 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 chenillette, spelled C-H-E-N-I-L-L-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plante fourragère de la famille des Fabacées (ou Légumineuses), ainsi nommée parce qu’elle produit une gousse roulée sur elle-même et de la figure d’une chenille. Genre Scorpiurus L.
- 2Segment de base d'une chenille de véhicule.
- 3Genre de véhicule de combat chenillé légèrement armé et blindé ressemblant à un petit char, aux dimensions avoisinant celles d'une voiture.
- 4Dameuse.
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