gabier
Letters
6 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
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gabier is aFrenchnoun. It means: Matelot qui monte dans les hunes et qui est chargé spécialement de manœuvrer les voiles et d’entretenir le gréement. Pronounced \ɡa.bje\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gabier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.bje\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gabier is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡa.bje\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for gabier 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 gabier, spelled G-A-B-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Matelot qui monte dans les hunes et qui est chargé spécialement de manœuvrer les voiles et d’entretenir le gréement.
- 2Ouvrier charger de couler le béton lors du creusage d’un puits de mine.
- 3Ouvrier charger de couler du béton dans des banches, des batardeaux, etc.
- 4Ouvrier qui réalise des gabions.
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