déglacer
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8 characters
Language
French
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déglacer is aFrenchverb. It means: Ôter la glace, fondre la glace. Pronounced \de.ɡla.se\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | déglacer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.ɡla.se\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for déglacer is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.ɡla.se\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for déglacer 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 déglacer, spelled D-É-G-L-A-C-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ôter la glace, fondre la glace.
- 2Mouiller avec un liquide (vin, bouillon…) un récipient ayant servi à une cuisson, pour dissoudre les substances et les sucs restant attachés au fond, afin de constituer un jus qui sera souvent filtré dans un chinois.
- 3Filtrer une marinade pour en ôter les morceaux de fruits, légumes, condiments, herbes et épices, afin d’en garder seulement le jus servant à la préparation d’une sauce.
- 4Briser la glace afin de permettre le passage d’un navire.
- 5Honer un cylindre.
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