ébouter
Letters
7 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
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ébouter is aFrenchverb. It means: Ôter le ou les bouts de quelque-chose. Pronounced \e.bu.te\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ébouter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.bu.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ébouter is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.bu.te\. 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 ébouter 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 ébouter, spelled É-B-O-U-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ôter le ou les bouts de quelque-chose.
- 2Couper les bouts d’un légume (notamment de haricots).
- 3Scier le bout d’une planche ou d’une bille de bois afin de lui donner une longueur déterminée.
- 4Ôter les bouts de fils brisés de la trace d’un ouvrage de dentelle à l’aiguille, après l’avoir séparé son support.
- 5« Découvrir, par quelques coups de hache, le bout d’une piece de bois [de mâture], pour juger de l’état de ses fibres et de leur force ».
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