dextre

/\dɛkstʁ\/ adj

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#56,547

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

dextre is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est du côté droit. Pronounced \dɛkstʁ\.

Key facts for dextre
PropertyValue
Headworddextre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\dɛkstʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#56,547
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of dextre in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for dextre is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɛkstʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #56,547 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for dextre 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 dextre, spelled D-E-X-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui est du côté droit.
  2. 2
    Se dit du côté droit de l’écu selon le point de vue du porteur de l'écu qui est derrière cet écu. Ce qui signifie, pour l’observateur en vis-à-vis, que la latéralité est inversée : c’est-à-dire que la dextre de l'écu est à la gauche de l’observateur. Comme pour bâbord et tribord, dextre et senestre ne changent pas suivant le point de vue, car c'est toujours un seul point de vue (celui du porteur ou celui de l'avancée du navire) qui sert de référence.
  3. 3
    Qui se déplace vers la droite, en parlant du décrochement d’une faille.
  4. 4
    Se dit d’un poisson plat dont les deux yeux sont sur le côté droit et dont la nage se fait le corps tourné sur la gauche.
  5. 5
    Qui s’enroule de gauche à droite, dans le sens des aiguilles d’une montre, si bien que pour un gastéropode, si l'ouverture est tournée vers le bas, elle s'ouvre sur la droite.
  6. 6
    Adroit.

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Frequency rank: #56,547 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dextre"?
"dextre" is spelled D-E-X-T-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \dɛkstʁ\.
What does "dextre" mean?
As an adj, "dextre" means: Qui est du côté droit.
How do you pronounce "dextre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dextre" is \dɛkstʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dextre" 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.