jambage
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7 characters
Language
French
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jambage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Élément vertical qui assure l’étanchéité en partie latérale entre le mur et l’ouverture (exemple : cheminée, linteau d’une porte, etc.). Pronounced \ʒɑ̃.baʒ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jambage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɑ̃.baʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for jambage is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒɑ̃.baʒ\. 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 jambage 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 jambage, spelled J-A-M-B-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Élément vertical qui assure l’étanchéité en partie latérale entre le mur et l’ouverture (exemple : cheminée, linteau d’une porte, etc.).
- 2Chaîne de pierre de taille ou de maçonnerie qui soutient l’édifice et sur laquelle on pose les grosses poutres.
- 3Ce qui soutient quelque chose.
- 4Trait vertical dans le dessin d’un caractère.
- 5Trait vertical descendant sous la ligne de base.
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