gantelet
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#88,662
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
gantelet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte de gant couvert de lames de fer par le dehors de la main, qui faisait autrefois partie de l’armure d’un homme armé de toutes pièces. Pronounced \ɡɑ̃.tlɛ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gantelet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɑ̃.tlɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,662 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gantelet is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡɑ̃.tlɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #88,662 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for gantelet 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 gantelet, spelled G-A-N-T-E-L-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte de gant couvert de lames de fer par le dehors de la main, qui faisait autrefois partie de l’armure d’un homme armé de toutes pièces.
- 2Sorte de bandage qui enveloppe la main et les doigts comme un gant.
- 3Morceau de cuir dont certains artisans, tels que les bourreliers et les relieurs, se couvrent la paume de la main, quand ils travaillent.
- 4Meuble représentant un gant d’armure dans les armoiries. Il est généralement représenté en main dextre (droite) jusqu’au poignet, vue de dessus. À rapprocher de gant, main, dextrochère et senestrochère.
- 5Gant de protection porté par le fauconnier.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #88,662 in French
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