dame de nage

/\dam də naʒ\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

dame de nage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ferrure en forme de U sur pivot, fixée sur le plat-bord d’une barque ou au bout d’un portant et dans laquelle on fixe les avirons pour ramer. Pronounced \dam də naʒ\.

Key facts for dame de nage
PropertyValue
Headworddame de nage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dam də naʒ\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

dame de nage 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 dame de nage is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dam də naʒ\. 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 dame de nage 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 dame de nage, spelled D-A-M-E- -D-E- -N-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ferrure en forme de U sur pivot, fixée sur le plat-bord d’une barque ou au bout d’un portant et dans laquelle on fixe les avirons pour ramer.
  2. 2
    Échancrure en forme de demi-lune, pratiquée dans le plat-bord ou le tableau arrière d’un canot, d’une embarcation, servant à maintenir un aviron ou une godille pendant la nage.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dame de nage"?
"dame de nage" is spelled D-A-M-E- -D-E- -N-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \dam də naʒ\.
What does "dame de nage" mean?
As a noun, "dame de nage" means: Ferrure en forme de U sur pivot, fixée sur le plat-bord d’une barque ou au bout d’un portant et dans laquelle on fixe les avirons pour ramer.
How do you pronounce "dame de nage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dame de nage" is \dam də naʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dame de nage" come from?
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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.