jambonneau
Letters
10 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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Confusables
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jambonneau is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie de la jambe du porc située au-dessous du genou et préparée en charcuterie. Pronounced \ʒɑ̃.bɔ.no\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jambonneau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɑ̃.bɔ.no\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for jambonneau is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒɑ̃.bɔ.no\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for jambonneau 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 jambonneau, spelled J-A-M-B-O-N-N-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie de la jambe du porc située au-dessous du genou et préparée en charcuterie.
- 2Par analogie de forme, pièce en forme d'entonnoir aplati servant à réunir deux tuyaux de descente d'eaux pluviales depuis les gouttières. Ne doit pas être confondue avec la pièce de jonction nommée culotte.
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