main courante
Letters
13 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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Confusables
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main courante is aFrenchnoun. It means: Registre sur lequel sont consignées des opérations, de vente pour les commerçants, des incidents et interventions pour les commissariats de police, les casernes de pompiers, les hôpitaux… Pronounced \mɛ̃ ku.ʁɑ̃t\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | main courante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛ̃ ku.ʁɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for main courante is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛ̃ ku.ʁɑ̃t\. 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 main courante 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 main courante, spelled M-A-I-N- -C-O-U-R-A-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Registre sur lequel sont consignées des opérations, de vente pour les commerçants, des incidents et interventions pour les commissariats de police, les casernes de pompiers, les hôpitaux…
- 2Élément rampant placé à hauteur d’appui sur le noyau, sur le mur-noyau, sur le mur de cage d’escalier ou couronnant une rampe d’appui.
- 3Anneau sur la roue d’un fauteuil roulant pour la propulsion manuelle.
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