hache à double tranchant

/\a.ʃ‿a dubl tʁɑ̃.ʃɑ̃\/ noun

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French

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hache à double tranchant is aFrenchnoun. It means: Hache présentant un fer constitué de deux tranchants diamétralement opposés permettant de manier l’arme en la balançant comme un pendule. Certaines pouvaient être utilisées comme arme de jet. Pronounced \a.ʃ‿a dubl tʁɑ̃.ʃɑ̃\.

Key facts for hache à double tranchant
PropertyValue
Headwordhache à double tranchant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.ʃ‿a dubl tʁɑ̃.ʃɑ̃\
Letters24
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

hache à double tranchant is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for hache à double tranchant is 24 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ʃ‿a dubl tʁɑ̃.ʃɑ̃\. 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 hache à double tranchant 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 hache à double tranchant, spelled H-A-C-H-E- -À- -D-O-U-B-L-E- -T-R-A-N-C-H-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Hache présentant un fer constitué de deux tranchants diamétralement opposés permettant de manier l’arme en la balançant comme un pendule. Certaines pouvaient être utilisées comme arme de jet.
  2. 2
    Hache pourvue d’un fer à deux tranchants servant à abattre des arbres, couper du bois, etc.
  3. 3
    Meuble représentant l’arme du même nom dans les armoiries. À rapprocher de hache d’armes ; souvent confondue avec la hache franque.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hache à double tranchant"?
"hache à double tranchant" is spelled H-A-C-H-E- -À- -D-O-U-B-L-E- -T-R-A-N-C-H-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ʃ‿a dubl tʁɑ̃.ʃɑ̃\.
What does "hache à double tranchant" mean?
As a noun, "hache à double tranchant" means: Hache présentant un fer constitué de deux tranchants diamétralement opposés permettant de manier l’arme en la balançant comme un pendule. Certaines pouvaient être utilisées comme arme de jet.
How do you pronounce "hache à double tranchant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hache à double tranchant" is \a.ʃ‿a dubl tʁɑ̃.ʃɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.