méninge
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7 characters
Language
French
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méninge is aFrenchnoun. It means: Chacune des trois membranes qui enveloppent le cerveau et qui se nomment la dure-mère, la pie-mère et l’arachnoïde. Pronounced \me.nɛ̃ʒ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | méninge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.nɛ̃ʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for méninge is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \me.nɛ̃ʒ\. 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: "Chacune des trois membranes qui enveloppent le cerveau et qui se nomment la dure-mère, la pie-mère et l’arachnoïde.".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for méninge 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 méninge, spelled M-É-N-I-N-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Chacune des trois membranes qui enveloppent le cerveau et qui se nomment la dure-mère, la pie-mère et l’arachnoïde.
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