échelle de Jacob

/\e.ʃɛl də ʒa.kɔb\/ noun

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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tracked variants

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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\.

Key facts for échelle de Jacob
PropertyValue
Headwordéchelle de Jacob
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\e.ʃɛl də ʒa.kɔb\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

échelle de Jacob is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

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

  1. 1
    Échelle vue par le patriarche Jacob, permettant aux anges de transiter entre la terre et le ciel.
  2. 2
    Nom vernaculaire de la polémoine bleue.
  3. 3
    Moyen de communication entre le quotidien matériel, la réalité, et un domaine rêvé, espéré.
  4. 4
    Rayons crépusculaires.
  5. 5
    Jouet en bois, que l’on fait jouer en inclinant le premier des segments.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "échelle de Jacob"?
"échelle de Jacob" is spelled É-C-H-E-L-L-E- -D-E- -J-A-C-O-B. The IPA pronunciation is \e.ʃɛl də ʒa.kɔb\.
What does "échelle de Jacob" mean?
As a noun, "échelle de Jacob" means: Échelle vue par le patriarche Jacob, permettant aux anges de transiter entre la terre et le ciel.
How do you pronounce "échelle de Jacob"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "échelle de Jacob" is \e.ʃɛl də ʒa.kɔb\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "échelle de Jacob" come from?
"échelle de Jacob" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.