jeune homme
Letters
11 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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Confusables
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jeune homme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Homme entre l’âge adolescent et adulte ou jeune adulte encore célibataire. Pronounced \ʒœ.n‿ɔm\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jeune homme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒœ.n‿ɔm\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for jeune homme is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒœ.n‿ɔm\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for jeune homme 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 jeune homme, spelled J-E-U-N-E- -H-O-M-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Homme entre l’âge adolescent et adulte ou jeune adulte encore célibataire.
- 2Formule de politesse quand on s’adresse à un homme jeune dont on ne connaît pas la situation matrimoniale.
- 3Terme plus ou moins condescendant pour adresser un reproche à un homme jeune sur son immaturité.
- 4ou Qui fait penser à homme jeune en parlant d’un homme âgé.
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