échelle de Jacob
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16 characters
Language
French
word origin
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échelle de Jacob is aFrenchnoun. It means: Échelle vue par le patriarche Jacob, permettant aux anges de transiter entre la terre et le ciel. Pronounced \e.ʃɛl də ʒa.kɔb\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | échelle de Jacob |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ʃɛl də ʒa.kɔb\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for échelle de Jacob is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.ʃɛl də ʒa.kɔb\. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for échelle de Jacob 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 échelle de Jacob, spelled É-C-H-E-L-L-E- -D-E- -J-A-C-O-B, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Échelle vue par le patriarche Jacob, permettant aux anges de transiter entre la terre et le ciel.
- 2Nom vernaculaire de la polémoine bleue.
- 3Moyen de communication entre le quotidien matériel, la réalité, et un domaine rêvé, espéré.
- 4Rayons crépusculaires.
- 5Jouet en bois, que l’on fait jouer en inclinant le premier des segments.
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