hache de Damoclès
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17 characters
Language
French
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hache de Damoclès is aFrenchnoun. It means: Épée de Damoclès. Pronounced \aʃ də da.mɔ.kles\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hache de Damoclès |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʃ də da.mɔ.kles\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for hache de Damoclès is 17 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \aʃ də da.mɔ.kles\. 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: "Épée de Damoclès.".
No misspelling variants are generated for hache de Damoclès 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 de Damoclès, spelled H-A-C-H-E- -D-E- -D-A-M-O-C-L-È-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Épée de Damoclès.
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