engrener
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8 characters
Language
French
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engrener is aFrenchverb. It means: Emplir de grain. Pronounced \ɑ̃.ɡʁə.ne\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | engrener |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ɡʁə.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for engrener is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.ɡʁə.ne\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for engrener 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 engrener, spelled E-N-G-R-E-N-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Emplir de grain.
- 2Introduire, dans une batteuse, les gerbes pour les battre.
- 3Engraisser avec du grain, en parlant de la volaille et d'animaux de la ferme.
- 4Jeter de l’eau dans une pompe, pour l’amorcer, avant de la faire jouer.
- 5Mettre en route, mettre en train, commencer.
- 6Faire entrer les dents d’une roue dans celles d’une autre roue ou dans les ailes d’un pignon, en sorte que l’une des deux pièces ne peut se mouvoir sans faire tourner l’autre.
- 7Prendre dans un engrenage.
- 8Entrer ses dents dans celles d’une autre, en parlant d’une roue d’engrenage.
- 9S’engarier, s’engager mal à propos.
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