girandole
Letters
9 characters
Language
French
word origin
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girandole is aFrenchnoun. It means: Faisceau de plusieurs jets d’eau ou gerbe pyrotechnique de fusées volantes qui partent en même temps ; girande. Pronounced \ʒi.ʁɑ̃.dɔl\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | girandole |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒi.ʁɑ̃.dɔl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for girandole is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒi.ʁɑ̃.dɔl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for girandole 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 girandole, spelled G-I-R-A-N-D-O-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Faisceau de plusieurs jets d’eau ou gerbe pyrotechnique de fusées volantes qui partent en même temps ; girande.
- 2(Luminaire) Chandelier à plusieurs branches disposées en pyramide, placé en applique ou sur une table, un buffet, un guéridon, ou sur une torchère.
- 3Sorte d’éclairage employé dans les fêtes publiques, constitué par les lignes incurvées de lampions, de becs de gaz, d’ampoules électriques.
- 4Assemblage de diamants ou d’autres pierres précieuses, qui sert à la parure des femmes, et qu’elles portent à leurs oreilles.
- 5Quelques plantes dont les fleurs forment des sortes de bouquet ; et, en termes de Botanique, de certaines plantes aquatiques dont les feuilles sont disposées en verticilles.
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