fin de semaine
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14 characters
Language
French
word origin
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fin de semaine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Les deux derniers jours de la semaine de travail : jeudi et vendredi ou le dernier jour de la semaine : vendredi. (Prononcé \fɛ̃ dla smɛn\ (fin de la semaine) au Canada.) Pronounced \fɛ̃ d‿sə.mɛn\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fin de semaine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛ̃ d‿sə.mɛn\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for fin de semaine is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛ̃ d‿sə.mɛn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for fin de semaine 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 fin de semaine, spelled F-I-N- -D-E- -S-E-M-A-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Les deux derniers jours de la semaine de travail : jeudi et vendredi ou le dernier jour de la semaine : vendredi. (Prononcé \fɛ̃ dla smɛn\ (fin de la semaine) au Canada.)
- 2Ensemble de deux jours, généralement chômés, que constituent le samedi et le dimanche. (Prononcé \fɛ̃ dsə.mɛn\ au Québec.)
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