emplâtre
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8 characters
Language
French
word origin
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emplâtre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Médicament solide et glutineux, qui se ramollit par la chaleur et qu'on applique sur telle ou telle partie du corps, après l’avoir étendu sur de la toile. Pronounced \ɑ̃.plɑtʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | emplâtre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.plɑtʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for emplâtre is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.plɑtʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for emplâtre 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 emplâtre, spelled E-M-P-L-Â-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Médicament solide et glutineux, qui se ramollit par la chaleur et qu'on applique sur telle ou telle partie du corps, après l’avoir étendu sur de la toile.
- 2Maçonnerie appliquée à un mur pour le consolider.
- 3Personne qui n’a aucune vigueur d’esprit, qui est incapable d’agir comme il convient, qui ne fait qu’apporter de l’embarras dans les affaires dont elle se mêle.
- 4Coup porté en se battant.
- 5Englumen utilisé pour accélérer la cicatrisation des arbres.
- 6Pièce que l'on colle sur une chambre à air pour boucher un trou, rustine.
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