hapax
Letters
5 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
hapax is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mot, spécialement pour les langues anciennes, dont on ne connaît qu’une seule occurrence dans le corpus d’une langue donnée, globalement ou à une époque donnée. Pronounced ^((h muet))\a.paks\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hapax |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\a.paks\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for hapax is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h muet))\a.paks\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for hapax 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 hapax, spelled H-A-P-A-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mot, spécialement pour les langues anciennes, dont on ne connaît qu’une seule occurrence dans le corpus d’une langue donnée, globalement ou à une époque donnée.
- 2Mot unique dans un corpus donné.
- 3Occurrence qui ne se produit qu’une seule fois dans la vie d’un individu. → voir hapax existentiel
- 4Personne unique, qui n’a aucun équivalent.
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