ennoblir
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8 characters
Language
French
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ennoblir is aFrenchverb. It means: Donner de la noblesse, de l’élévation, de la dignité, du lustre. Cela s’applique aux personnes et aux choses. Pronounced \ɑ̃.nɔ.bliʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ennoblir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.nɔ.bliʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for ennoblir is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.nɔ.bliʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for ennoblir 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 ennoblir, spelled E-N-N-O-B-L-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Donner de la noblesse, de l’élévation, de la dignité, du lustre. Cela s’applique aux personnes et aux choses.
- 2Donner industriellement des façons aux tissus (impression, satinage, effet duveteux…) pour augmenter leur beauté et leur valeur marchande.
- 3Anoblir, pourvoir d’un titre de noblesse.
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