idiosyncrasie

/\i.djo.sɛ̃.kʁa.si\/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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idiosyncrasie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Disposition particulière en vertu de laquelle chaque individu reçoit d’une façon qui lui est propre les influences des divers agents qui affectent ses organes. Pronounced \i.djo.sɛ̃.kʁa.si\.

Key facts for idiosyncrasie
PropertyValue
Headwordidiosyncrasie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\i.djo.sɛ̃.kʁa.si\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

idiosyncrasie 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 idiosyncrasie is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \i.djo.sɛ̃.kʁa.si\. 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 misspelling variants are generated for idiosyncrasie 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 idiosyncrasie, spelled I-D-I-O-S-Y-N-C-R-A-S-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Disposition particulière en vertu de laquelle chaque individu reçoit d’une façon qui lui est propre les influences des divers agents qui affectent ses organes.
  2. 2
    Caractères propres au comportement d’un individu particulier.
  3. 3
    Personnalité psychique individuelle.
  4. 4
    Caractère propre à une langue.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "idiosyncrasie"?
"idiosyncrasie" is spelled I-D-I-O-S-Y-N-C-R-A-S-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \i.djo.sɛ̃.kʁa.si\.
What does "idiosyncrasie" mean?
As a noun, "idiosyncrasie" means: Disposition particulière en vertu de laquelle chaque individu reçoit d’une façon qui lui est propre les influences des divers agents qui affectent ses organes.
How do you pronounce "idiosyncrasie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "idiosyncrasie" is \i.djo.sɛ̃.kʁa.si\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "idiosyncrasie" 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.