étoile polaire
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14 characters
Language
French
word origin
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étoile polaire is aFrenchnoun. It means: Étoile assez visible la plus proche du pôle céleste, très souvent du pôle Nord céleste. Comme les pôles célestes varient sur une période d’environ 25 800 ans par la précession des équinoxes, l’étoi... Pronounced \e.twal pɔ.lɛʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étoile polaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.twal pɔ.lɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for étoile polaire is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.twal pɔ.lɛʁ\. 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 étoile polaire 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 étoile polaire, spelled É-T-O-I-L-E- -P-O-L-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Étoile assez visible la plus proche du pôle céleste, très souvent du pôle Nord céleste. Comme les pôles célestes varient sur une période d’environ 25 800 ans par la précession des équinoxes, l’étoile polaire est amenée à changer. L’étoile polaire nord actuelle est α Ursae Minoris, soit Polaris, de la constellation de la Petite Ourse, utilisée pour trouver le nord depuis environ 2000 ans.
- 2Personne ou chose servant de références, de guide.
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