grosse aventure

/\ɡʁo.s‿a.vɑ̃.tyʁ\/ noun

Letters

15 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

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similar word pairs

grosse aventure is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom donné au commerce maritime intercontinental au temps de la marine à voiles. Pronounced \ɡʁo.s‿a.vɑ̃.tyʁ\.

Key facts for grosse aventure
PropertyValue
Headwordgrosse aventure
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡʁo.s‿a.vɑ̃.tyʁ\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

grosse aventure 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 grosse aventure is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁo.s‿a.vɑ̃.tyʁ\. 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: "Nom donné au commerce maritime intercontinental au temps de la marine à voiles.".

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

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom donné au commerce maritime intercontinental au temps de la marine à voiles.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "grosse aventure"?
"grosse aventure" is spelled G-R-O-S-S-E- -A-V-E-N-T-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡʁo.s‿a.vɑ̃.tyʁ\.
What does "grosse aventure" mean?
As a noun, "grosse aventure" means: Nom donné au commerce maritime intercontinental au temps de la marine à voiles.
How do you pronounce "grosse aventure"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "grosse aventure" is \ɡʁo.s‿a.vɑ̃.tyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "grosse aventure" 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.