état-major
Letters
10 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
état-major is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ensemble des officiers sans troupes placés, auprès des chefs investis du commandement pour transmettre leurs ordres, en assurer l’exécution et coordonner les opérations des diverses armes et des se... Pronounced \e.ta.ma.ʒɔʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | état-major |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ta.ma.ʒɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for état-major is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.ta.ma.ʒɔʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for état-major 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 état-major, spelled É-T-A-T---M-A-J-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des officiers sans troupes placés, auprès des chefs investis du commandement pour transmettre leurs ordres, en assurer l’exécution et coordonner les opérations des diverses armes et des services militaires.
- 2L’ensemble des auxiliaires dont s’entoure un ingénieur, un savant, etc.
- 3Lieu où sont les bureaux de l’état-major.
- 4Boisson composée de vin blanc et de sirop de citron ou de sirop de sucre.
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