exocentrique
Letters
12 characters
Language
French
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exocentrique is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui s’éloigne du centre, excentrique. Pronounced \ɛɡ.zo.sɑ̃.tʁik\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exocentrique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ɛɡ.zo.sɑ̃.tʁik\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for exocentrique is 12 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛɡ.zo.sɑ̃.tʁik\. 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 misspelling variants are generated for exocentrique 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 exocentrique, spelled E-X-O-C-E-N-T-R-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui s’éloigne du centre, excentrique.
- 2Qui provient de l’extérieur.
- 3Se dit d'une dérivation ou d'un affixe qui modifie la catégorie de la base.
- 4Qualifie une construction qui ne peut pas se substituer par le noyau. Par exemple, le syntagme prépositionnel à Paris et le mot composé rouge-gorge sont exocentriques : les noyaux à et gorge ne peuvent pas substituer les syntagmes.
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