jet ski
Letters
7 characters
Language
French
word origin
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jet ski is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petit véhicule de loisir nautique que l’on chevauche et qui est propulsé par un hydrojet, lui-même actionné par un moteur. Pronounced \dʒɛt ski\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jet ski |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʒɛt ski\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for jet ski is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dʒɛt ski\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Petit véhicule de loisir nautique que l’on chevauche et qui est propulsé par un hydrojet, lui-même actionné par un moteur.".
No misspelling variants are generated for jet ski 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 jet ski, spelled J-E-T- -S-K-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petit véhicule de loisir nautique que l’on chevauche et qui est propulsé par un hydrojet, lui-même actionné par un moteur.
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