kitsune
Letters
7 characters
Language
French
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kitsune is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom générique donné au renard dans la culture japonaise. Le renard est l’envoyé d’Inari, divinité associée à la céréaliculture, et la riziculture. Souvent présenté comme une Créature du folklore do... Pronounced \ki.tsu.ne\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kitsune |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ki.tsu.ne\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for kitsune is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ki.tsu.ne\. 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 misspelling variants are generated for kitsune 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 kitsune, spelled K-I-T-S-U-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom générique donné au renard dans la culture japonaise. Le renard est l’envoyé d’Inari, divinité associée à la céréaliculture, et la riziculture. Souvent présenté comme une Créature du folklore dotée de pouvoirs de métamorphose et d’illusions, pouvant avoir jusqu’à neuf queues.
- 2Renard doté de pouvoirs magiques issu du folklore asiatique, doté de pouvoir de métamorphose et pouvant avoir plusieurs queues. Note : Parfois considéré comme un abus de langage. référence nécessaire (résoudre le problème)
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