double sens
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Language
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double sens is aFrenchnoun. It means: Figure de style semblable au calembour, dans laquelle une expression orale peut être comprise de l’une ou l’autre des deux manières, des deux sens. Pronounced \du.blə.sɑ̃s\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | double sens |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \du.blə.sɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for double sens is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \du.blə.sɑ̃s\. 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 double sens 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 double sens, spelled D-O-U-B-L-E- -S-E-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Figure de style semblable au calembour, dans laquelle une expression orale peut être comprise de l’une ou l’autre des deux manières, des deux sens.
- 2Type de circulation routière qui permet aux conducteurs de rouler dans les deux directions d’une route.
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