contrevent
Letters
10 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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contrevent is aFrenchnoun. It means: Grand volet de bois ou de fer, qui s’ouvre et qui se ferme du côté extérieur de la fenêtre et qui sert à garantir du vent, de la pluie, du jour, etc. Pronounced \kɔ̃.tʁə.vɑ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contrevent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁə.vɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for contrevent is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.tʁə.vɑ̃\. 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 contrevent 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 contrevent, spelled C-O-N-T-R-E-V-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Grand volet de bois ou de fer, qui s’ouvre et qui se ferme du côté extérieur de la fenêtre et qui sert à garantir du vent, de la pluie, du jour, etc.
- 2Pièce de bois placée obliquement entre les fermes d’une charpente pour leur donner plus de résistance contre l’action du vent.
- 3Côté opposé à la tuyère dans un fourneau d’affinage.
- 4Vent contraire.
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