jeu de mots
Letters
11 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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jeu de mots is aFrenchnoun. It means: Manipulation plaisante des mots fondée sur la ressemblance des mots. Pronounced \ʒø də mo\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jeu de mots |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒø də mo\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for jeu de mots is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒø də mo\. 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: "Manipulation plaisante des mots fondée sur la ressemblance des mots.".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for jeu de mots 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 jeu de mots, spelled J-E-U- -D-E- -M-O-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Manipulation plaisante des mots fondée sur la ressemblance des mots.
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