flûte traversière

/\flyt tʁa.vɛʁ.sjɛʁ\/ noun

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Language

French

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flûte traversière is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom générique des flûtes à embouchure libre dont le biseau est situé au milieu du corps de l’instrument et que l’on tient de travers, de manière latérale. Pronounced \flyt tʁa.vɛʁ.sjɛʁ\.

Key facts for flûte traversière
PropertyValue
Headwordflûte traversière
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\flyt tʁa.vɛʁ.sjɛʁ\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

flûte traversière 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 flûte traversière is 17 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \flyt tʁa.vɛʁ.sjɛʁ\. 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 misspelling variants are generated for flûte traversière 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 flûte traversière, spelled F-L-Û-T-E- -T-R-A-V-E-R-S-I-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom générique des flûtes à embouchure libre dont le biseau est situé au milieu du corps de l’instrument et que l’on tient de travers, de manière latérale.
  2. 2
    Nom courant des flûtes traversières classiques.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "flûte traversière"?
"flûte traversière" is spelled F-L-Û-T-E- -T-R-A-V-E-R-S-I-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \flyt tʁa.vɛʁ.sjɛʁ\.
What does "flûte traversière" mean?
As a noun, "flûte traversière" means: Nom générique des flûtes à embouchure libre dont le biseau est situé au milieu du corps de l’instrument et que l’on tient de travers, de manière latérale.
How do you pronounce "flûte traversière"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "flûte traversière" is \flyt tʁa.vɛʁ.sjɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.