feu de croisement

/\fø də kʁwaz.mɑ̃\/ noun

Letters

17 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

feu de croisement is aFrenchnoun. It means: Phare avant d’une voiture qui est baissé pour ne pas éblouir les véhicules croisés. Pronounced \fø də kʁwaz.mɑ̃\.

Key facts for feu de croisement
PropertyValue
Headwordfeu de croisement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fø də kʁwaz.mɑ̃\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

feu de croisement is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for feu de croisement is 17 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fø də kʁwaz.mɑ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Phare avant d’une voiture qui est baissé pour ne pas éblouir les véhicules croisés.".

No misspelling variants are generated for feu de croisement 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 feu de croisement, spelled F-E-U- -D-E- -C-R-O-I-S-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Phare avant d’une voiture qui est baissé pour ne pas éblouir les véhicules croisés.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "feu de croisement"?
"feu de croisement" is spelled F-E-U- -D-E- -C-R-O-I-S-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \fø də kʁwaz.mɑ̃\.
What does "feu de croisement" mean?
As a noun, "feu de croisement" means: Phare avant d’une voiture qui est baissé pour ne pas éblouir les véhicules croisés.
How do you pronounce "feu de croisement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "feu de croisement" is \fø də kʁwaz.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "feu de croisement" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.