gastro-entérite

/\ɡas.tʁo.ɑ̃.te.ʁit\/ noun

Letters

15 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

gastro-entérite is aFrenchnoun. It means: Inflammation de l’estomac ou des intestins généralement causée par les colibacilles, les salmonelles ou le rotavirus. Pronounced \ɡas.tʁo.ɑ̃.te.ʁit\.

Key facts for gastro-entérite
PropertyValue
Headwordgastro-entérite
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡas.tʁo.ɑ̃.te.ʁit\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for gastro-entérite is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡas.tʁo.ɑ̃.te.ʁit\. 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: "Inflammation de l’estomac ou des intestins généralement causée par les colibacilles, les salmonelles ou le rotavirus.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for gastro-entérite 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 gastro-entérite, spelled G-A-S-T-R-O---E-N-T-É-R-I-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Inflammation de l’estomac ou des intestins généralement causée par les colibacilles, les salmonelles ou le rotavirus.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gastro-entérite"?
"gastro-entérite" is spelled G-A-S-T-R-O---E-N-T-É-R-I-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡas.tʁo.ɑ̃.te.ʁit\.
What does "gastro-entérite" mean?
As a noun, "gastro-entérite" means: Inflammation de l’estomac ou des intestins généralement causée par les colibacilles, les salmonelles ou le rotavirus.
How do you pronounce "gastro-entérite"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gastro-entérite" is \ɡas.tʁo.ɑ̃.te.ʁit\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gastro-entérite" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.