cylindre aveugle

/\si.lɛ̃dʁ a.vœɡl\/ noun

The verdict

“cylindre aveugle” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
16
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Cylindre de serrure ne pouvant être ouvert ou fermé que d’un seul côté.

Key facts for cylindre aveugle
PropertyValue
Headwordcylindre aveugle
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\si.lɛ̃dʁ a.vœɡl\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “cylindre aveugle” sits in French frequency

cylindre aveugle falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cylindre aveugle is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \si.lɛ̃dʁ a.vœɡl\. 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: "Cylindre de serrure ne pouvant être ouvert ou fermé que d’un seul côté.".

No misspelling variants are generated for cylindre aveugle 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 cylindre aveugle, spelled C-Y-L-I-N-D-R-E- -A-V-E-U-G-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cylindre de serrure ne pouvant être ouvert ou fermé que d’un seul côté.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cylindre aveugle"?
"cylindre aveugle" is spelled C-Y-L-I-N-D-R-E- -A-V-E-U-G-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \si.lɛ̃dʁ a.vœɡl\.
What does "cylindre aveugle" mean?
As a noun, "cylindre aveugle" means: Cylindre de serrure ne pouvant être ouvert ou fermé que d’un seul côté.
How do you pronounce "cylindre aveugle"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cylindre aveugle" is \si.lɛ̃dʁ a.vœɡl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cylindre aveugle" come from?
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Using “cylindre aveugle”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is C-Y-L-I-N-D-R-E- -A-V-E-U-G-L-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \si.lɛ̃dʁ a.vœɡl\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.