havre de paix
Letters
13 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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havre de paix is aFrenchnoun. It means: Lieu où l'on va pour se reposer, goûter une paix profonde. Pronounced \ɑvʁ(ə) də pɛ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | havre de paix |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑvʁ(ə) də pɛ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for havre de paix is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑvʁ(ə) də pɛ\. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for havre de paix 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 havre de paix, spelled H-A-V-R-E- -D-E- -P-A-I-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lieu où l'on va pour se reposer, goûter une paix profonde.
- 2Lieu où l'on peut se réfugier d'un monde trop violent.
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