croix de Saint-André
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20 characters
Language
French
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croix de Saint-André is aFrenchnoun. It means: Croix joignant les diagonales d’un rectangle, en forme d’X. Pronounced \kʁwa də sɛ̃.t‿ɑ̃.dʁe\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | croix de Saint-André |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁwa də sɛ̃.t‿ɑ̃.dʁe\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for croix de Saint-André is 20 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁwa də sɛ̃.t‿ɑ̃.dʁe\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for croix de Saint-André 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 croix de Saint-André, spelled C-R-O-I-X- -D-E- -S-A-I-N-T---A-N-D-R-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Croix joignant les diagonales d’un rectangle, en forme d’X.
- 2Pièces de bois disposées en croix de Saint-André sur lesquelles le bourreau étendait le criminel qu’il allait rouer.
- 3Pavage d’une place à laquelle aboutissent quatre rues.
- 4Autre nom commun de la croisette velue.
- 5Forte sangle placée quelquefois en sautoir sur l’avant de la misaine pour la fortifier.
- 6Assemblage de poteaux ou de pièces de bois qui se coupent diagonalement et qui arc-boutent les pièces d'un pan de charpente.
- 7(Russie) Décoration dont les récipiendaires sont organisés en ordre honorifique, l’ordre de Saint-André. Insigne porté par les récipiendaires de cet ordre.
- 8Bande scapulaire et raie de mulet formant une croix.
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