œil-de-bœuf
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French
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œil-de-bœuf is aFrenchnoun. It means: Baie ronde ou ovale, disposée sur un mur ou, souvent, sur comble et constituant une lucarne ou une fenêtre d’attique. Pronounced \œj.də.bœf\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | œil-de-bœuf |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \œj.də.bœf\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for œil-de-bœuf is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \œj.də.bœf\. 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 œil-de-bœuf 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 œil-de-bœuf, spelled Œ-I-L---D-E---B-Œ-U-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Baie ronde ou ovale, disposée sur un mur ou, souvent, sur comble et constituant une lucarne ou une fenêtre d’attique.
- 2Horloge ou pendule ancienne, généralement du XIXe siècle, à cadran en forme d’œil-de-bœuf.
- 3Surnom donné aux premiers timbres-poste du Brésil, en raison de leur motif.
- 4Nom vernaculaire ambigu donné à plusieurs espèces de plantes vasculaires, et en particulier à certaines astéracées (e.g. l'anthémis des teinturiers (Cota tinctoria), le buphthalme à feuilles de saule (Buphthalmum salicifolium), la marguerite commune (Leucanthemum vulgare), aux graines et à la plante nommée Mucuna sloanei de la famille des Fabacées. etc.).
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