lentille de contact

/\lɑ̃.tij də kɔ̃.takt\/ noun

Letters

19 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

lentille de contact is aFrenchnoun. It means: Lentille correctrice placée directement au contact de l’œil. Pronounced \lɑ̃.tij də kɔ̃.takt\.

Key facts for lentille de contact
PropertyValue
Headwordlentille de contact
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\lɑ̃.tij də kɔ̃.takt\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

lentille de contact 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 lentille de contact is 19 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɑ̃.tij də kɔ̃.takt\. 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: "Lentille correctrice placée directement au contact de l’œil.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for lentille de contact 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 lentille de contact, spelled L-E-N-T-I-L-L-E- -D-E- -C-O-N-T-A-C-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Lentille correctrice placée directement au contact de l’œil.

This word in other languages

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "lentille de contact"?
"lentille de contact" is spelled L-E-N-T-I-L-L-E- -D-E- -C-O-N-T-A-C-T. The IPA pronunciation is \lɑ̃.tij də kɔ̃.takt\.
What does "lentille de contact" mean?
As a noun, "lentille de contact" means: Lentille correctrice placée directement au contact de l’œil.
How do you pronounce "lentille de contact"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "lentille de contact" is \lɑ̃.tij də kɔ̃.takt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "lentille de contact" come from?
"lentille de contact" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Nearby French words

Other entries that begin with the letter L in our French index:

Explore PlainSpell

Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.