jambette
Letters
8 characters
Language
French
word origin
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jambette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petit couteau sans ressort, dont la lame se replie dans le manche. Pronounced \ʒɑ̃.bɛt\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jambette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɑ̃.bɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for jambette is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒɑ̃.bɛt\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for jambette 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 jambette, spelled J-A-M-B-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petit couteau sans ressort, dont la lame se replie dans le manche.
- 2Petit poteau qui porte les chevrons ou pièce de bois qui renforce les arbalétriers.
- 3Pièce de bois qui lie ensemble les lisses.
- 4Croc-en-jambe, croche-pied.
- 5Ancien jeu, sorte de lutte qui se pratiquait couché avec les jambes.
- 6Geste d’un cheval qui maintient une patte antérieure levée.
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