goutte d’eau
Letters
12 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
goutte d’eau is aFrenchnoun. It means: Entaille sous un rebord permettant l’écoulement de l’eau de pluie à l’extérieur d’un bâtiment. Pronounced \ɡut do\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | goutte d’eau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡut do\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for goutte d’eau is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡut do\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for goutte d’eau 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 goutte d’eau, spelled G-O-U-T-T-E- -D-’-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Entaille sous un rebord permettant l’écoulement de l’eau de pluie à l’extérieur d’un bâtiment.
- 2Forme d’une goutte d’eau juste avant de tomber.
- 3Quantité infime, voire insuffisante.
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