clenche
Letters
7 characters
Language
French
word origin
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clenche is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie d'une ancienne serrure, la clenche est une barre de métal qui pivote autour d'un axe située à son extrémité, l'autre bout dépassant de la porte se bloque dans le mentonnet. On soulève la cle... Pronounced \klɑ̃ʃ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clenche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \klɑ̃ʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for clenche is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \klɑ̃ʃ\. 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 clenche 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 clenche, spelled C-L-E-N-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie d'une ancienne serrure, la clenche est une barre de métal qui pivote autour d'un axe située à son extrémité, l'autre bout dépassant de la porte se bloque dans le mentonnet. On soulève la clenche grâce au poucier.
- 2Petit levier faisant bascule sur lequel on appuie pour lever le loquet d’une porte, C'est le poucier.
- 3Petit levier sur lequel on appuie pour chasser l'eau du réservoir vers la cuvette des toilettes.
- 4Poignée de porte, bec-de-cane.
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