chistera
Letters
8 characters
Language
French
word origin
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chistera is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte de panier d’osier, fixé au poignet par l'intermédiaire d'un gant plat en cuir, pour renvoyer la balle, au jeu de la pelote basque. Le masculin est souvent d'usage en français malgré sa termin... Pronounced \ʃis.tə.ʁa\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chistera |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃis.tə.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for chistera is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃis.tə.ʁa\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for chistera 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 chistera, spelled C-H-I-S-T-E-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte de panier d’osier, fixé au poignet par l'intermédiaire d'un gant plat en cuir, pour renvoyer la balle, au jeu de la pelote basque. Le masculin est souvent d'usage en français malgré sa terminaison en -a et l'influence du féminin en espagnol : una chistera. Un « grand chistera » est toujours au masculin.
- 2Le jeu de pelote basque lui-même.
- 3féminin Une passe effectuée dans le dos, en jetant le bras vers l’arrière, généralement par un demi de mêlée.
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