île du Prince-de-Galles

/\il dy pʁɛ̃s.də.ɡal\/ name

Letters

23 characters

Language

French

word origin

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île du Prince-de-Galles is aFrenchname. It means: Île de l’archipel arctique canadien, au Nunavut. Pronounced \il dy pʁɛ̃s.də.ɡal\.

Key facts for île du Prince-de-Galles
PropertyValue
Headwordîle du Prince-de-Galles
LanguageFrench
Part of speechName
IPA\il dy pʁɛ̃s.də.ɡal\
Letters23
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

île du Prince-de-Galles is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for île du Prince-de-Galles is 23 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \il dy pʁɛ̃s.də.ɡal\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for île du Prince-de-Galles 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 île du Prince-de-Galles, spelled Î-L-E- -D-U- -P-R-I-N-C-E---D-E---G-A-L-L-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Île de l’archipel arctique canadien, au Nunavut.
  2. 2
    Petite île du lac Nipigon, en Ontario.
  3. 3
    Île côtière américaine du Sud-Est de l’Alaska, dans l’archipel Alexandre. C’est par la taille la troisième île des États-Unis après Hawaï et l’île Kodiak.
  4. 4
    La plus grande des îles du détroit de Torrès, en Australie. Appelée Muralug par les autochtones.
  5. 5
    Ancien nom de l’île de Pénang (ou Penang) en Malaisie.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "île du Prince-de-Galles"?
"île du Prince-de-Galles" is spelled Î-L-E- -D-U- -P-R-I-N-C-E---D-E---G-A-L-L-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \il dy pʁɛ̃s.də.ɡal\.
What does "île du Prince-de-Galles" mean?
As a name, "île du Prince-de-Galles" means: Île de l’archipel arctique canadien, au Nunavut.
How do you pronounce "île du Prince-de-Galles"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "île du Prince-de-Galles" is \il dy pʁɛ̃s.də.ɡal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "île du Prince-de-Galles" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.