œilleton
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\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | œilleton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \œj.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Rejeton d’œillet, marcotte d’œillets.
- 2Bourgeons que poussent les racines de certaines plantes, telles que les artichauts, et qu’on détache afin de multiplier ces plantes.
- 3Pièce de cuivre ou de caoutchouc, de forme ronde, adaptée à l’oculaire d’un télescope, d’un appareil-photo ou d’une caméra.
- 4Synonyme de judas, petite ouverture pratiquée dans une porte permettant de voir qui est dans l’entrée.
- 5Petite lampe (feu) auxiliaire d’un signal lumineux, qui lorsqu’elle est allumée, permet le franchissement de celui-ci quand il est fermé (feu rouge).
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