La Canée
Letters
8 characters
Language
French
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La Canée is aFrenchname. It means: Ville portuaire de l’île de Crète, dont elle est deuxième plus grande ville. Elle est située à l’Ouest de l’île, dans une baie sur sa façade égéenne, à l’emplacement de l’ancienne cité minoenne de ... Pronounced \la ka.ne\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | La Canée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | \la ka.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for La Canée is 8 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la ka.ne\. 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 La Canée 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 La Canée, spelled L-A- -C-A-N-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ville portuaire de l’île de Crète, dont elle est deuxième plus grande ville. Elle est située à l’Ouest de l’île, dans une baie sur sa façade égéenne, à l’emplacement de l’ancienne cité minoenne de Cydon, au nord des montagnes Blanches.
- 2Un dème de Crète.
- 3Jusqu’en 2011, un nome de Crète.
- 4Depuis 2011, celui des districts régionaux de Crète qui couvre le quart ouest de l’île.
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