époxy
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#83,536
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
époxy is aFrenchnoun. It means: Groupe chimique qui caractérise les époxydes, composé d'un atome d'oxygène formant un pont par dessus une liaison carbone-carbone. Pronounced \e.pɔk.si\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | époxy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.pɔk.si\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,536 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for époxy is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.pɔk.si\. Corpus data places it at rank #83,536 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for époxy 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 époxy, spelled É-P-O-X-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Groupe chimique qui caractérise les époxydes, composé d'un atome d'oxygène formant un pont par dessus une liaison carbone-carbone.
- 2Composé organique ayant des qualités adhésives et utilisé soit seul, comme colle, soit associé à d’autres matériaux comme la fibre de verre (composite verre/époxyde), pour réaliser du matériel sportif, des planches de surf, des coques de bateaux, des carters de protection, etc.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #83,536 in French
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