musique classique
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Language
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musique classique is aFrenchnoun. It means: Forme de la musique savante européenne qui respecte les règles et harmonies, dites classiques, de la seconde moitié du XVIIIᵉ siècle aux premières décennies du XIXᵉ siècle, par opposition notamment... Pronounced \my.sik kla.sik\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | musique classique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \my.sik kla.sik\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for musique classique is 17 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \my.sik kla.sik\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for musique classique 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 musique classique, spelled M-U-S-I-Q-U-E- -C-L-A-S-S-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Forme de la musique savante européenne qui respecte les règles et harmonies, dites classiques, de la seconde moitié du XVIIIᵉ siècle aux premières décennies du XIXᵉ siècle, par opposition notamment aux styles baroques, romantiques ou modernes.
- 2Toute la musique savante européenne, depuis la Renaissance jusqu’au milieu, approximativement, du XXᵉ siècle, à laquelle s’ajoutent les musiques contemporaines qui n’utilisent que les instruments de musique anciens.
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