lanterne magique

/\lɑ̃.tɛʁn ma.ʒik\/ noun

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

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lanterne magique is aFrenchnoun. It means: Instrument d’optique qui, au moyen de lentilles et de verres peints, projette des images sur une toile ou sur une muraille blanche. Pronounced \lɑ̃.tɛʁn ma.ʒik\.

Key facts for lanterne magique
PropertyValue
Headwordlanterne magique
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\lɑ̃.tɛʁn ma.ʒik\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

lanterne magique is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for lanterne magique is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɑ̃.tɛʁn ma.ʒik\. 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 lanterne magique 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 lanterne magique, spelled L-A-N-T-E-R-N-E- -M-A-G-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Instrument d’optique qui, au moyen de lentilles et de verres peints, projette des images sur une toile ou sur une muraille blanche.
  2. 2
    Réunion où un grand nombre de personnes ne font que passer et se succèdent les unes aux autres.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "lanterne magique"?
"lanterne magique" is spelled L-A-N-T-E-R-N-E- -M-A-G-I-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \lɑ̃.tɛʁn ma.ʒik\.
What does "lanterne magique" mean?
As a noun, "lanterne magique" means: Instrument d’optique qui, au moyen de lentilles et de verres peints, projette des images sur une toile ou sur une muraille blanche.
How do you pronounce "lanterne magique"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "lanterne magique" is \lɑ̃.tɛʁn ma.ʒik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "lanterne magique" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.