identical twin

/\aɪ.ˌdɛn.tɪ.kəl ˈtwɪn\/ noun

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14 characters

Language

French

word origin

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identical twin is aFrenchnoun. It means: Vrai jumeau, jumeau monozygote. Pronounced \aɪ.ˌdɛn.tɪ.kəl ˈtwɪn\.

Key facts for identical twin
PropertyValue
Headwordidentical twin
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\aɪ.ˌdɛn.tɪ.kəl ˈtwɪn\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

identical twin 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 identical twin is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \aɪ.ˌdɛn.tɪ.kəl ˈtwɪn\. 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: "Vrai jumeau, jumeau monozygote.".

No misspelling variants are generated for identical twin 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 identical twin, spelled I-D-E-N-T-I-C-A-L- -T-W-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Vrai jumeau, jumeau monozygote.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "identical twin"?
"identical twin" is spelled I-D-E-N-T-I-C-A-L- -T-W-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is \aɪ.ˌdɛn.tɪ.kəl ˈtwɪn\.
What does "identical twin" mean?
As a noun, "identical twin" means: Vrai jumeau, jumeau monozygote.
How do you pronounce "identical twin"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "identical twin" is \aɪ.ˌdɛn.tɪ.kəl ˈtwɪn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.