court-circuit
Letters
13 characters
Language
French
word origin
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court-circuit is aFrenchnoun. It means: Connexion volontaire ou accidentelle de deux points d’un circuit électrique entre lesquels il existe une différence de potentiel, par un conducteur de faible résistance. Pronounced \kuʁ.siʁ.kɥi\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | court-circuit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kuʁ.siʁ.kɥi\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for court-circuit is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kuʁ.siʁ.kɥi\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Connexion volontaire ou accidentelle de deux points d’un circuit électrique entre lesquels il existe une différence de potentiel, par un conducteur de faible résistance.".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for court-circuit 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 court-circuit, spelled C-O-U-R-T---C-I-R-C-U-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Connexion volontaire ou accidentelle de deux points d’un circuit électrique entre lesquels il existe une différence de potentiel, par un conducteur de faible résistance.
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