feu rouge
Letters
9 characters
Language
French
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feu rouge is aFrenchnoun. It means: Lanterne de lumière rouge pour situer la position d'un navire. Pronounced \fø ʁuʒ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feu rouge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fø ʁuʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for feu rouge is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fø ʁuʒ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for feu rouge 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 rouge, spelled F-E-U- -R-O-U-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lanterne de lumière rouge pour situer la position d'un navire.
- 2Feu tricolore en phase rouge, imposant au conducteur d'immobiliser son véhicule.
- 3(Par métonymie) Durée de la phase rouge d'un feu de circulation.
- 4Interdiction.
- 5Arrêt, interruption.
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