fuseau horaire

/\fy.zo ɔ.ʁɛʁ\/ noun

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

fuseau horaire is aFrenchnoun. It means: Zone verticale de la surface terrestre, où l'heure adoptée doit être identique en tout lieu. Note: en langue française, l'expression associe deux concepts différents puisque l'heure légale d'une zo... Pronounced \fy.zo ɔ.ʁɛʁ\.

Key facts for fuseau horaire
PropertyValue
Headwordfuseau horaire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fy.zo ɔ.ʁɛʁ\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

fuseau horaire 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 fuseau horaire is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fy.zo ɔ.ʁɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Zone verticale de la surface terrestre, où l'heure adoptée doit être identique en tout lieu. Note: en langue française, l'expression associe deux concepts différents puisque l'heure légale d'une zo...".

No misspelling variants are generated for fuseau horaire 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 fuseau horaire, spelled F-U-S-E-A-U- -H-O-R-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Zone verticale de la surface terrestre, où l'heure adoptée doit être identique en tout lieu. Note: en langue française, l'expression associe deux concepts différents puisque l'heure légale d'une zone administrative est rattaché à l'un des 25 fuseaux géographiques compris entre UTC-12 et UTC+12 ou à un fuseau intermédiaire additionnel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fuseau horaire"?
"fuseau horaire" is spelled F-U-S-E-A-U- -H-O-R-A-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fy.zo ɔ.ʁɛʁ\.
What does "fuseau horaire" mean?
As a noun, "fuseau horaire" means: Zone verticale de la surface terrestre, où l'heure adoptée doit être identique en tout lieu. Note: en langue française, l'expression associe deux concepts différents puisque l'heure légale d'une zo...
How do you pronounce "fuseau horaire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fuseau horaire" is \fy.zo ɔ.ʁɛʁ\. 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.