épine dorsale
Letters
13 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
épine dorsale is aFrenchnoun. It means: Enchainement des apophyses épineuses des vertèbres visible dans le dos de l’homme et de certains mammifères. Pronounced \e.pin dɔʁ.sal\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | épine dorsale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.pin dɔʁ.sal\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for épine dorsale is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.pin dɔʁ.sal\. 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 épine dorsale 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 épine dorsale, spelled É-P-I-N-E- -D-O-R-S-A-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Enchainement des apophyses épineuses des vertèbres visible dans le dos de l’homme et de certains mammifères.
- 2Ensemble du dos.
- 3Dos avec la notion de maintien, de dignité ou de siège de sensations psychiques.
- 4Chaîne de montagnes.
- 5Voie de communication desservant les centres vitaux d’un centre urbain ou informatique.
- 6Structure d’un concept, d’une philosophie supportant leurs ramifications.
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