fièvre jaune

/\fjɛ.vʁə ʒon\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

fièvre jaune is aFrenchnoun. It means: Maladie virale transmise par des moustiques et caractérisée par des maux de tête et des fièvres. Pronounced \fjɛ.vʁə ʒon\.

Key facts for fièvre jaune
PropertyValue
Headwordfièvre jaune
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fjɛ.vʁə ʒon\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for fièvre jaune is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fjɛ.vʁə ʒon\. 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: "Maladie virale transmise par des moustiques et caractérisée par des maux de tête et des fièvres.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for fièvre jaune 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 fièvre jaune, spelled F-I-È-V-R-E- -J-A-U-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Maladie virale transmise par des moustiques et caractérisée par des maux de tête et des fièvres.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fièvre jaune"?
"fièvre jaune" is spelled F-I-È-V-R-E- -J-A-U-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fjɛ.vʁə ʒon\.
What does "fièvre jaune" mean?
As a noun, "fièvre jaune" means: Maladie virale transmise par des moustiques et caractérisée par des maux de tête et des fièvres.
How do you pronounce "fièvre jaune"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fièvre jaune" is \fjɛ.vʁə ʒon\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fièvre jaune" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.