extrinsèque
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Language
French
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extrinsèque is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est tiré, non de la chose elle-même, mais de choses avec lesquelles elle a un rapport plus ou moins direct. Pronounced \ɛks.tʁɛ̃.sɛk\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | extrinsèque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ɛks.tʁɛ̃.sɛk\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for extrinsèque is 11 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛks.tʁɛ̃.sɛk\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for extrinsèque 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 extrinsèque, spelled E-X-T-R-I-N-S-È-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est tiré, non de la chose elle-même, mais de choses avec lesquelles elle a un rapport plus ou moins direct.
- 2Qualifie les lieux communs qui ne sont pas tirés de la définition même d’un fait, mais des circonstances qui s’y rapportent, comme la loi, les titres, les témoins, la voix publique, etc.
- 3Qui est ou se trouve en dehors.
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