jeu de dames
Letters
12 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
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similar word pairs
jeu de dames is aFrenchnoun. It means: Jeu combinatoire abstrait pour deux joueurs se jouant sur un damier de cent cases, ou de cent-quarante-quatre cases au Québec. Pronounced \ʒø də dam\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jeu de dames |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒø də dam\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for jeu de dames is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒø də dam\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for jeu de dames 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 jeu de dames, spelled J-E-U- -D-E- -D-A-M-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Jeu combinatoire abstrait pour deux joueurs se jouant sur un damier de cent cases, ou de cent-quarante-quatre cases au Québec.
- 2Jeu proche du précédent, mais joué sur un damier de soixante-quatre cases, identique à un échiquier.
- 3Coffret ou boîte contenant les pièces et le damier.
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