ouï-dire
Letters
8 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
ouï-dire is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qu’on n’a ni vu ni entendu soi-même et qu’on ne sait que par le rapport d’une autre personne ou par le bruit public. Pronounced \wi.diʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ouï-dire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wi.diʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for ouï-dire is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \wi.diʁ\. 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 ouï-dire 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 ouï-dire, spelled O-U-Ï---D-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ce qu’on n’a ni vu ni entendu soi-même et qu’on ne sait que par le rapport d’une autre personne ou par le bruit public.
- 2Témoignage de ce qu'un tiers a dit, offert en preuve de la vérité de la chose dite; souvent inadmissible comme preuve à moins de se placer dans l'une des exceptions reconnues à cette règle.
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