la nuit des temps

/\la nɥi dɛ tɑ̃\/ noun

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Language

French

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la nuit des temps is aFrenchnoun. It means: Les temps reculés, si anciens que leur souvenir s’est effacé dans la mémoire collective. Pronounced \la nɥi dɛ tɑ̃\.

Key facts for la nuit des temps
PropertyValue
Headwordla nuit des temps
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\la nɥi dɛ tɑ̃\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

la nuit des temps is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for la nuit des temps is 17 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la nɥi dɛ tɑ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Les temps reculés, si anciens que leur souvenir s’est effacé dans la mémoire collective.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for la nuit des temps 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 nuit des temps, spelled L-A- -N-U-I-T- -D-E-S- -T-E-M-P-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Les temps reculés, si anciens que leur souvenir s’est effacé dans la mémoire collective.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "la nuit des temps"?
"la nuit des temps" is spelled L-A- -N-U-I-T- -D-E-S- -T-E-M-P-S. The IPA pronunciation is \la nɥi dɛ tɑ̃\.
What does "la nuit des temps" mean?
As a noun, "la nuit des temps" means: Les temps reculés, si anciens que leur souvenir s’est effacé dans la mémoire collective.
How do you pronounce "la nuit des temps"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "la nuit des temps" is \la nɥi dɛ tɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "la nuit des temps" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.