face cachée
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11 characters
Language
French
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face cachée is aFrenchnoun. It means: Dans l’expression face cachée de la Lune : désigne l’hémisphère de la Lune qui n’est jamais directement observable depuis la Terre, la rotation de la Lune sur elle-même étant synchronisée avec sa r... Pronounced \fas ka.ʃe\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | face cachée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fas ka.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for face cachée is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fas ka.ʃe\. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for face cachée 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 face cachée, spelled F-A-C-E- -C-A-C-H-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dans l’expression face cachée de la Lune : désigne l’hémisphère de la Lune qui n’est jamais directement observable depuis la Terre, la rotation de la Lune sur elle-même étant synchronisée avec sa rotation autour de la Terre.
- 2Dans l’expression face cachée de l'iceberg : désigne la partie immergée, donc invisible depuis la surface.
- 3Désigne un aspect secret ou inaccessible d’une personne ou d’une chose.
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