Japet
Letters
5 characters
Language
French
word origin
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0
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Japet is aFrenchname. It means: Dans la mythologie grecque, un Titan, fils d’Ouranos (le Ciel) et de Gaïa (la Terre), père des Titans Prométhée, Épiméthée, Ménœtios, Hespéros et Atlas. Il est l’époux de l’Océanide Clymène (fille ... Pronounced \ʒa.pɛ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Japet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | \ʒa.pɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for Japet is 5 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒa.pɛ\. 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 misspelling variants are generated for Japet in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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 Japet, spelled J-A-P-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dans la mythologie grecque, un Titan, fils d’Ouranos (le Ciel) et de Gaïa (la Terre), père des Titans Prométhée, Épiméthée, Ménœtios, Hespéros et Atlas. Il est l’époux de l’Océanide Clymène (fille de son frère Océan), d’une autre Océanide du nom d’Asia, de sa sœur la Titanide Téthys, de son autre sœur Thémis, de la nymphe Asopis, ou encore de la déesse Libye, selon les auteurs.
- 2Satellite naturel de la planète Saturne.
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