frangible
Letters
9 characters
Language
French
word origin
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frangible is anFrenchadj. It means: Cassable, brisable. Pronounced \fʁɑ̃.ʒibl\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frangible |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \fʁɑ̃.ʒibl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for frangible is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fʁɑ̃.ʒibl\. 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 frangible 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 frangible, spelled F-R-A-N-G-I-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cassable, brisable.
- 2Cassable, brisable, et intentionnellement conçu pour l’être, avec un point de rupture ou une zone de rupture programmée, notamment pour des raisons de sécurité.
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