mante religieuse
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16 characters
Language
French
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mante religieuse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Espèce d’insectes de l’ordre des mantoptères, actuellement la seule du genre Mantis. Pronounced \mɑ̃t ʁə.li.ʒjøz\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mante religieuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑ̃t ʁə.li.ʒjøz\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for mante religieuse is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɑ̃t ʁə.li.ʒjøz\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for mante religieuse 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 mante religieuse, spelled M-A-N-T-E- -R-E-L-I-G-I-E-U-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce d’insectes de l’ordre des mantoptères, actuellement la seule du genre Mantis.
- 2Femme cruelle et dangereuse (parce que la femelle de l’insecte dévore le mâle après l’accouplement).
- 3Style de boxe chinoise.
- 4Tao utilisant ce style de boxe.
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