lieutenant-colonel
Letters
18 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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Confusables
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lieutenant-colonel is aFrenchnoun. It means: Grade donné à un officier supérieur. En France, dans l’armée de terre, l’armée de l’air et la gendarmerie nationale de France, il est situé entre son supérieur hiérarchique, le colonel, et son subo... Pronounced \ljøt.nɑ̃.kɔ.lɔ.nɛl\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lieutenant-colonel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ljøt.nɑ̃.kɔ.lɔ.nɛl\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lieutenant-colonel is 18 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ljøt.nɑ̃.kɔ.lɔ.nɛl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for lieutenant-colonel 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 lieutenant-colonel, spelled L-I-E-U-T-E-N-A-N-T---C-O-L-O-N-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Grade donné à un officier supérieur. En France, dans l’armée de terre, l’armée de l’air et la gendarmerie nationale de France, il est situé entre son supérieur hiérarchique, le colonel, et son subordonné, le commandant (armée de terre, armée de l’air) ou le chef d’escadron (gendarmerie), correspondant à celui de capitaine de frégate dans la Marine nationale française. Le code OTAN : OF-4.
- 2Officier supérieur de ce grade, situé entre son supérieur hiérarchique, le colonel, et son subordonné, le commandant.
- 3Grade d’officier des Forces armées canadiennes.
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