franc-maçonnerie
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16 characters
Language
French
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franc-maçonnerie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Association philanthropique, autrefois secrète, qui fait un emploi symbolique des instruments à l'usage de l'architecte et du maçon, et dont les lieux de réunion sont appelés loges. Pronounced \fʁɑ̃.ma.sɔn.ʁi\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | franc-maçonnerie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁɑ̃.ma.sɔn.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for franc-maçonnerie is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fʁɑ̃.ma.sɔn.ʁi\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for franc-maçonnerie 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 franc-maçonnerie, spelled F-R-A-N-C---M-A-Ç-O-N-N-E-R-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Association philanthropique, autrefois secrète, qui fait un emploi symbolique des instruments à l'usage de l'architecte et du maçon, et dont les lieux de réunion sont appelés loges.
- 2On le dit aussi des pratiques de cette association.
- 3Sentiment de sympathie qui naît facilement entre gens de même profession, de mêmes idées.
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