obsolescence programmée
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23 characters
Language
French
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obsolescence programmée is aFrenchnoun. It means: Fait de créer un bien de façon à ce qu’il devienne inutilisable, ou simplement suranné, au bout d’un certain temps, pour obliger à l’achat d’un nouveau. Pronounced \ɔp.sɔ.le.sɑ̃s pʁɔ.ɡʁa.me\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obsolescence programmée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔp.sɔ.le.sɑ̃s pʁɔ.ɡʁa.me\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for obsolescence programmée is 23 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔp.sɔ.le.sɑ̃s pʁɔ.ɡʁa.me\. 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 obsolescence programmée 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 obsolescence programmée, spelled O-B-S-O-L-E-S-C-E-N-C-E- -P-R-O-G-R-A-M-M-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fait de créer un bien de façon à ce qu’il devienne inutilisable, ou simplement suranné, au bout d’un certain temps, pour obliger à l’achat d’un nouveau.
- 2État d’une personne ou d’une chose devenue inutile par l’apparition d’une nouvelle technologie pouvant la remplacer.
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