jeu de quilles

/\ʒø də kij\/ noun

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

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Confusables

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similar word pairs

jeu de quilles is aFrenchnoun. It means: Jeu qui consiste à renverser des quilles à l’aide d’une boule ou d'un autre objet. Pronounced \ʒø də kij\.

Key facts for jeu de quilles
PropertyValue
Headwordjeu de quilles
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʒø də kij\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

jeu de quilles is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for jeu de quilles is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒø də kij\. 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 jeu de quilles 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 quilles, spelled J-E-U- -D-E- -Q-U-I-L-L-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Jeu qui consiste à renverser des quilles à l’aide d’une boule ou d'un autre objet.
  2. 2
    Lieu où l'on pratique ce jeu.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "jeu de quilles"?
"jeu de quilles" is spelled J-E-U- -D-E- -Q-U-I-L-L-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒø də kij\.
What does "jeu de quilles" mean?
As a noun, "jeu de quilles" means: Jeu qui consiste à renverser des quilles à l’aide d’une boule ou d'un autre objet.
How do you pronounce "jeu de quilles"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "jeu de quilles" is \ʒø də kij\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "jeu de quilles" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.