hache de pierre

/\aʃ.dœ.pjɛʁ\/ noun

Letters

15 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

hache de pierre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Arme ou instrument de pierre, que l'on découvre assez souvent dans les fouilles, dans les atterrissements ou dans les tombeaux des vieux Celtes. Pronounced \aʃ.dœ.pjɛʁ\.

Key facts for hache de pierre
PropertyValue
Headwordhache de pierre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\aʃ.dœ.pjɛʁ\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

hache de pierre 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 de pierre is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \aʃ.dœ.pjɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for hache de pierre 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 pierre, spelled H-A-C-H-E- -D-E- -P-I-E-R-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Arme ou instrument de pierre, que l'on découvre assez souvent dans les fouilles, dans les atterrissements ou dans les tombeaux des vieux Celtes.
  2. 2
    Instrument, arme en usage chez les sauvages, et qu'ils font de pierre très dure, en guise de fer.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hache de pierre"?
"hache de pierre" is spelled H-A-C-H-E- -D-E- -P-I-E-R-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \aʃ.dœ.pjɛʁ\.
What does "hache de pierre" mean?
As a noun, "hache de pierre" means: Arme ou instrument de pierre, que l'on découvre assez souvent dans les fouilles, dans les atterrissements ou dans les tombeaux des vieux Celtes.
How do you pronounce "hache de pierre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hache de pierre" is \aʃ.dœ.pjɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "hache de pierre" come from?
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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.