franc-maçonnerie

/\fʁɑ̃.ma.sɔn.ʁi\/ noun

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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\.

Key facts for franc-maçonnerie
PropertyValue
Headwordfranc-maçonnerie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fʁɑ̃.ma.sɔn.ʁi\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

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Spelling & Dictionary Insight

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

  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    On le dit aussi des pratiques de cette association.
  3. 3
    Sentiment de sympathie qui naît facilement entre gens de même profession, de mêmes idées.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "franc-maçonnerie"?
"franc-maçonnerie" is spelled F-R-A-N-C---M-A-Ç-O-N-N-E-R-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fʁɑ̃.ma.sɔn.ʁi\.
What does "franc-maçonnerie" mean?
As a noun, "franc-maçonnerie" 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.
How do you pronounce "franc-maçonnerie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "franc-maçonnerie" is \fʁɑ̃.ma.sɔn.ʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "franc-maçonnerie" come from?
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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.