homme de Néandertal

/\ɔm də ne.ɑ̃.dɛʁ.tal\/ noun

Letters

19 characters

Language

French

word origin

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homme de Néandertal is aFrenchnoun. It means: Espèce humaine, de nom scientifique Homo neanderthalensis, cousine des humains contemporains (Homo sapiens) et disparue de la surface de la terre il y a apparemment 30,000 ans environ. Pronounced \ɔm də ne.ɑ̃.dɛʁ.tal\.

Key facts for homme de Néandertal
PropertyValue
Headwordhomme de Néandertal
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɔm də ne.ɑ̃.dɛʁ.tal\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

homme de Néandertal 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 homme de Néandertal is 19 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔm də ne.ɑ̃.dɛʁ.tal\. 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 homme de Néandertal 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 homme de Néandertal, spelled H-O-M-M-E- -D-E- -N-É-A-N-D-E-R-T-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Espèce humaine, de nom scientifique Homo neanderthalensis, cousine des humains contemporains (Homo sapiens) et disparue de la surface de la terre il y a apparemment 30,000 ans environ.
  2. 2
    Personnage primitif, rustre.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "homme de Néandertal"?
"homme de Néandertal" is spelled H-O-M-M-E- -D-E- -N-É-A-N-D-E-R-T-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔm də ne.ɑ̃.dɛʁ.tal\.
What does "homme de Néandertal" mean?
As a noun, "homme de Néandertal" means: Espèce humaine, de nom scientifique Homo neanderthalensis, cousine des humains contemporains (Homo sapiens) et disparue de la surface de la terre il y a apparemment 30,000 ans environ.
How do you pronounce "homme de Néandertal"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "homme de Néandertal" is \ɔm də ne.ɑ̃.dɛʁ.tal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "homme de Néandertal" 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.