main-d’œuvre
Letters
12 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
main-d’œuvre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Travail de l’ouvrier considéré surtout par rapport au prix. Pronounced \mɛ̃.d‿œvʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | main-d’œuvre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛ̃.d‿œvʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for main-d’œuvre is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛ̃.d‿œvʁ\. 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 misspelling variants are generated for main-d’œuvre 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 main-d’œuvre, spelled M-A-I-N---D-’-Œ-U-V-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Travail de l’ouvrier considéré surtout par rapport au prix.
- 2L’ensemble des ouvriers de tel ou tel métier.
- 3Personne qui sans ni être ouvrières ni travailler avec leur mains, ni travailler dans le domaine des ouvriers est employée par un employeur.
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