œillard

/\œ.jaʁ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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Confusables

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œillard is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ouverture qui reçoit l’axe d’une roue de moulin. Pronounced \œ.jaʁ\.

Key facts for œillard
PropertyValue
Headwordœillard
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\œ.jaʁ\
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

œillard 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 œillard is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \œ.jaʁ\. 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 œillard 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 œillard, spelled Œ-I-L-L-A-R-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ouverture qui reçoit l’axe d’une roue de moulin.
  2. 2
    Trou au centre d’une roue de pompe centrifuge qui permet à l’eau d’entrer avant d’être délivrée dans les aubes grâce à une ouïe.
  3. 3
    Pour un étang, trou pouvant être régulé permettant au trop-plein d’eau de s’écouler à l’extérieur.
  4. 4
    Meule de taille moyenne.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "œillard"?
"œillard" is spelled Œ-I-L-L-A-R-D. The IPA pronunciation is \œ.jaʁ\.
What does "œillard" mean?
As a noun, "œillard" means: Ouverture qui reçoit l’axe d’une roue de moulin.
How do you pronounce "œillard"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "œillard" is \œ.jaʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "œillard" come from?
"œillard" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.