grandes eaux

/\ɡʁɑ̃d.z‿o\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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grandes eaux is aFrenchnoun. It means: Crue extraordinaire des fleuves, des rivières. Pronounced \ɡʁɑ̃d.z‿o\.

Key facts for grandes eaux
PropertyValue
Headwordgrandes eaux
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡʁɑ̃d.z‿o\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

grandes eaux 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 grandes eaux is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁɑ̃d.z‿o\. 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 grandes eaux 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 grandes eaux, spelled G-R-A-N-D-E-S- -E-A-U-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Crue extraordinaire des fleuves, des rivières.
  2. 2
    Crue printanière causée par la fonte des neiges.
  3. 3
    Avec de l'eau en abondance
  4. 4
    Pleurs abondants.
  5. 5
    Cascades, jets d’eau jouant tous ensemble.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "grandes eaux"?
"grandes eaux" is spelled G-R-A-N-D-E-S- -E-A-U-X. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡʁɑ̃d.z‿o\.
What does "grandes eaux" mean?
As a noun, "grandes eaux" means: Crue extraordinaire des fleuves, des rivières.
How do you pronounce "grandes eaux"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "grandes eaux" is \ɡʁɑ̃d.z‿o\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "grandes eaux" 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.