œilleton

/\œj.tɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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œilleton is aFrenchnoun. It means: Rejeton d’œillet, marcotte d’œillets. Pronounced \œj.tɔ̃\.

Key facts for œilleton
PropertyValue
Headwordœilleton
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\œj.tɔ̃\
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

œilleton 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 œilleton is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \œj.tɔ̃\. 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 œilleton 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 œilleton, spelled Œ-I-L-L-E-T-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Rejeton d’œillet, marcotte d’œillets.
  2. 2
    Bourgeons que poussent les racines de certaines plantes, telles que les artichauts, et qu’on détache afin de multiplier ces plantes.
  3. 3
    Pièce de cuivre ou de caoutchouc, de forme ronde, adaptée à l’oculaire d’un télescope, d’un appareil-photo ou d’une caméra.
  4. 4
    Synonyme de judas, petite ouverture pratiquée dans une porte permettant de voir qui est dans l’entrée.
  5. 5
    Petite lampe (feu) auxiliaire d’un signal lumineux, qui lorsqu’elle est allumée, permet le franchissement de celui-ci quand il est fermé (feu rouge).

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "œilleton"?
"œilleton" is spelled Œ-I-L-L-E-T-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \œj.tɔ̃\.
What does "œilleton" mean?
As a noun, "œilleton" means: Rejeton d’œillet, marcotte d’œillets.
How do you pronounce "œilleton"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "œilleton" is \œj.tɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "œilleton" come from?
"œilleton" 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.