féral
Letters
5 characters
Language
French
word origin
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0
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féral is anFrenchadj. It means: Qualifie une espèce domestique animale qui est retournée à l’état sauvage. Pronounced \fe.ʁal\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | féral |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \fe.ʁal\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for féral is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fe.ʁal\. 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 féral 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 féral, spelled F-É-R-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qualifie une espèce domestique animale qui est retournée à l’état sauvage.
- 2Qualifie une espèce végétale, une variété ou un cultivar, qui croît, de manière subspontanée, hors de l'espace destiné à sa culture.
- 3Qualifie un élément artificiel ayant un impact qui n’a pas été prévu lors de sa conception ; qui échappe à la maîtrise humaine.
- 4Qualifie en astrologie une planète du thème astral qui ne forme aucun angle remarquable avec les autres planètes du thème.
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