écran de fumée
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14 characters
Language
French
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écran de fumée is aFrenchnoun. It means: Tactique utilisée afin de masquer la position exacte d’unités militaires à l’ennemi, par l’émission d’une fumée dense qui peut être naturelle mais est le plus souvent produite artificiellement à pa... Pronounced \e.kʁɑ̃ də fy.me\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écran de fumée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kʁɑ̃ də fy.me\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for écran de fumée is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.kʁɑ̃ də fy.me\. 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 écran de fumée 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 écran de fumée, spelled É-C-R-A-N- -D-E- -F-U-M-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tactique utilisée afin de masquer la position exacte d’unités militaires à l’ennemi, par l’émission d’une fumée dense qui peut être naturelle mais est le plus souvent produite artificiellement à partir de grenades fumigènes.
- 2Subterfuge qui consiste à masquer ses intentions réelles en effectuant ou promettant de faire autre chose.
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