congru
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6 characters
Language
French
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congru is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui convient, qui s’adapte exactement à ce qu’on veut exprimer. Pronounced \kɔ̃.ɡʁy\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | congru |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.ɡʁy\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for congru is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.ɡʁy\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for congru 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 congru, spelled C-O-N-G-R-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui convient, qui s’adapte exactement à ce qu’on veut exprimer.
- 2Qui a un rapport de congruence : dont la différence avec un autre nombre est divisible par un troisième.
- 3Se dit de côtés ou d'angles qui ont la même mesure, ou de figures identiques (même forme, même taille, mais dont la position n'est pas forcément la même).
- 4Qualifie une grâce proportionnée à l'acte de vertu à accomplir.
- 5Se disait de la rétribution que les gros décimateurs versaient aux curés qui accomplissaient leurs fonctions ecclésiastiques en leur lieu et place. D'où portion congrue.
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