courroie de transmission

/\ku.ʁwa də tʁɑ̃s.mi.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

24 characters

Language

French

word origin

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courroie de transmission is aFrenchnoun. It means: Courroie qui transmet du mouvement et de la puissance entre arbres d’une machine. Pronounced \ku.ʁwa də tʁɑ̃s.mi.sjɔ̃\.

Key facts for courroie de transmission
PropertyValue
Headwordcourroie de transmission
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ku.ʁwa də tʁɑ̃s.mi.sjɔ̃\
Letters24
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

courroie de transmission is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for courroie de transmission is 24 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku.ʁwa də tʁɑ̃s.mi.sjɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for courroie de transmission 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 courroie de transmission, spelled C-O-U-R-R-O-I-E- -D-E- -T-R-A-N-S-M-I-S-S-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Courroie qui transmet du mouvement et de la puissance entre arbres d’une machine.
  2. 2
    Personne, groupe ou institution facilitant la communication entre différentes parties prenantes, ou servant de porte-parole d’une des parties.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "courroie de transmission"?
"courroie de transmission" is spelled C-O-U-R-R-O-I-E- -D-E- -T-R-A-N-S-M-I-S-S-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ku.ʁwa də tʁɑ̃s.mi.sjɔ̃\.
What does "courroie de transmission" mean?
As a noun, "courroie de transmission" means: Courroie qui transmet du mouvement et de la puissance entre arbres d’une machine.
How do you pronounce "courroie de transmission"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "courroie de transmission" is \ku.ʁwa də tʁɑ̃s.mi.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.