menon
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5 characters
Language
French
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menon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Bouc de tête, muni de cloches, chargé de mener un troupeau, notamment durant une transhumance. Pronounced \mə.nɔ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | menon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mə.nɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for menon is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mə.nɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for menon 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 menon, spelled M-E-N-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bouc de tête, muni de cloches, chargé de mener un troupeau, notamment durant une transhumance.
- 2Bouc châtré (en Provence seuls des boucs châtrés sont mêlés aux brebis).
- 3Chèvre du Levant dont la peau sert à faire du maroquin.
- 4Autrefois, personne chargée d’arranger les mariages aux mieux des intérêts des familles et de discuter de la dot.
- 5Mouton, flocons de poussière qui s’assemblent sous les meubles.
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