drapeau blanc
Letters
13 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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Confusables
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drapeau blanc is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pavillon, drapeau que l’on hisse pour signifier sa reddition ou demander à parlementer. Pronounced \dʁa.po blɑ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drapeau blanc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁa.po blɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for drapeau blanc is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dʁa.po blɑ̃\. 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 misspelling variants are generated for drapeau blanc 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 drapeau blanc, spelled D-R-A-P-E-A-U- -B-L-A-N-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pavillon, drapeau que l’on hisse pour signifier sa reddition ou demander à parlementer.
- 2Drapeau royaliste durant le régime monarchique français à partir de la fin du Moyen-Âge environ.
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