klingeln
Letters
8 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
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klingeln is aFrenchverb. It means: Sonner. Pronounced \ˈklɪŋl̩n\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | klingeln |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈklɪŋl̩n\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for klingeln is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈklɪŋl̩n\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for klingeln 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 klingeln, spelled K-L-I-N-G-E-L-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sonner.
- 2Sonner à la porte.
- 3Sonner (en parlant du réveil).
- 4Faire remarquer, comprendre, noter.
- 5Faire un bruit désagréable dans les oreilles.
- 6Faire un bruit anormal, parlant d’un moteur.
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