Knopf
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5 characters
Language
French
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Knopf is aFrenchnoun. It means: Bouton, petite pièce de diverses matières, ordinairement ronde ou plate, quelquefois bombée ou en boule, qui sert généralement à retenir ensemble différentes parties d’un vêtement et que l’on passe... Pronounced \knɔpf\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Knopf |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \knɔpf\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for Knopf is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \knɔpf\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Knopf 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 Knopf, spelled K-N-O-P-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bouton, petite pièce de diverses matières, ordinairement ronde ou plate, quelquefois bombée ou en boule, qui sert généralement à retenir ensemble différentes parties d’un vêtement et que l’on passe, à cet effet, dans les fentes appelées boutonnières, dans les ganses ou dans les brides.
- 2Bouton, pièce de fer ou de cuivre, qui est ordinairement de forme ronde ou ovale et qui sert à tirer à soi une porte ou à l’ouvrir.
- 3Bouton, petit organe de commande d’un appareil, surtout bouton-poussoir.
- 4Bouton, commande manuelle d’un interrupteur, d’un potentiomètre, etc.
- 5Bouton, zone d’interface, icône numériques d’un écran, d’un site ou d’un programme qui permet d’interagir avec ces derniers.
- 6Enfant en bas âge, petit enfant, petit gamin.
- 7Écouteur intra-auriculaire, sonotone, appareil auditif.
- 8(Allemagne du sud) Nœud.
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