larder
Letters
6 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
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larder is aFrenchverb. It means: Piquer une pièce alimentaire (un morceau de viande par exemple) de morceaux de lard avant la cuisson, parfois en les disposant de manière à faire un dessin. Pronounced \laʁ.de\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | larder |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \laʁ.de\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for larder is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \laʁ.de\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for larder 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 larder, spelled L-A-R-D-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Piquer une pièce alimentaire (un morceau de viande par exemple) de morceaux de lard avant la cuisson, parfois en les disposant de manière à faire un dessin.
- 2Transpercer, notamment à l’arme blanche.
- 3Planter de proche en proche des clous dans un bois pour y faciliter la tenue du plâtre qu’on y appliquera.
- 4Coudre une ralingue au bord d’une voile en faisant passer le fil entre les torons.
- 5En parlant d’une carte à jouer, l’introduire secrètement dans un paquet dans un but de tricherie.
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