mordache
Letters
8 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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Confusables
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mordache is aFrenchnoun. It means: Plaque en matériau malléable que l’on place sur les mâchoires d’un étau pour serrer une pièce sans l’endommager. Pronounced \mɔʁ.daʃ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mordache |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔʁ.daʃ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mordache is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔʁ.daʃ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for mordache 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 mordache, spelled M-O-R-D-A-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plaque en matériau malléable que l’on place sur les mâchoires d’un étau pour serrer une pièce sans l’endommager.
- 2Mâchoire de pince ou de tenaille.
- 3Pièce en plomb (plus rarement cuir ou tissu) placée dans la mâchoire du chien d'une arme à silex afin de serrer et fixer le silex sans l'endommager.
- 4Pince servant à déplacer des bûches dans un âtre.
- 5Mors, bâillon que les moines se mettaient dans la bouche, pour avoir rompu le silence.
- 6Bagou, faconde.
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