odalisque
Letters
9 characters
Language
French
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odalisque is aFrenchnoun. It means: Femme de chambre ou esclave qui était au service des femmes d'un harem. Pronounced \ɔ.da.lisk\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | odalisque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.da.lisk\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for odalisque is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.da.lisk\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for odalisque 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 odalisque, spelled O-D-A-L-I-S-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Femme de chambre ou esclave qui était au service des femmes d'un harem.
- 2Femme d'un harem, un des thèmes favoris de la peinture orientaliste où elle est généralement représentée allongée, nue ou peu vêtue.
- 3Courtisane, maîtresse.
- 4Libellule dont une espèce eurasiatique vit en Grèce, à Chypre, en Turquie, jusqu'au Cachemire à l'est.
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