ère tertiaire
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13 characters
Language
French
word origin
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ère tertiaire is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ancienne division de l’échelle des temps géologiques qui désigne aujourd’hui le début de l’ère Cénozoïque et qui comprend les périodes Paléogène et Néogène. Pronounced \ɛʁ tɛʁ.sjɛʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ère tertiaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛʁ tɛʁ.sjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ère tertiaire is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛʁ tɛʁ.sjɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ère tertiaire 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 ère tertiaire, spelled È-R-E- -T-E-R-T-I-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ancienne division de l’échelle des temps géologiques qui désigne aujourd’hui le début de l’ère Cénozoïque et qui comprend les périodes Paléogène et Néogène.
- 2Dénomination qui désigne notre époque actuelle, dont l’essor des métiers du secteur tertiaire occupe la grande majorité de la main-d’œuvre disponible dans les pays développés.
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