Nouveau-Brunswick
Letters
17 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
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Nouveau-Brunswick is aFrenchname. It means: Province du Canada (symbole postal NB), bordée par le Québec (Gaspésie) et la baie des Chaleurs au nord, le golfe du Saint-Laurent au nord-est, la Nouvelle-Écosse au sud-est, la baie de Fundy au su... Pronounced \nu.vo.bʁɔn.zwɪk\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nouveau-Brunswick |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | \nu.vo.bʁɔn.zwɪk\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for Nouveau-Brunswick is 17 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nu.vo.bʁɔn.zwɪk\. 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 misspelling variants are generated for Nouveau-Brunswick in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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 Nouveau-Brunswick, spelled N-O-U-V-E-A-U---B-R-U-N-S-W-I-C-K, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Province du Canada (symbole postal NB), bordée par le Québec (Gaspésie) et la baie des Chaleurs au nord, le golfe du Saint-Laurent au nord-est, la Nouvelle-Écosse au sud-est, la baie de Fundy au sud, et les États-Unis à l’ouest, née en tant que telle au moment de la Confédération canadienne (1867), et dont la capitale est Fredericton.
- 2Colonie britannique constituée en 1784 par une scission de la colonie de la Nouvelle-Écosse de l’époque, qui deviendra la province d’aujourd’hui en 1867 et recoupait le même territoire.
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