open source

/\o.pœn.suʁs\/ adj

Letters

11 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

open source is anFrenchadj. It means: Variante orthographique de open-source. Pronounced \o.pœn.suʁs\.

Key facts for open source
PropertyValue
Headwordopen source
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\o.pœn.suʁs\
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

open source is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for open source is 11 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o.pœn.suʁs\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Variante orthographique de open-source.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for open source 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 open source, spelled O-P-E-N- -S-O-U-R-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Variante orthographique de open-source.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "open source"?
"open source" is spelled O-P-E-N- -S-O-U-R-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \o.pœn.suʁs\.
What does "open source" mean?
As an adj, "open source" means: Variante orthographique de open-source.
How do you pronounce "open source"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "open source" is \o.pœn.suʁs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "open source" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.