ouvrage de référence

/\u.vʁaʒ də ʁe.fe.ʁɑ̃s\/ noun

Letters

20 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

ouvrage de référence is aFrenchnoun. It means: Recueil d’informations classées qui n’est pas destiné à être lu de la première à la dernière page, mais consulté par rubriques, articles ou entrées. Pronounced \u.vʁaʒ də ʁe.fe.ʁɑ̃s\.

Key facts for ouvrage de référence
PropertyValue
Headwordouvrage de référence
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\u.vʁaʒ də ʁe.fe.ʁɑ̃s\
Letters20
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

ouvrage de référence 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 ouvrage de référence is 20 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \u.vʁaʒ də ʁe.fe.ʁɑ̃s\. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ouvrage de référence 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 ouvrage de référence, spelled O-U-V-R-A-G-E- -D-E- -R-É-F-É-R-E-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Recueil d’informations classées qui n’est pas destiné à être lu de la première à la dernière page, mais consulté par rubriques, articles ou entrées.
  2. 2
    Ouvrage qui sert de référentiel dans un domaine de la connaissance, qui est populaire sans être une somme de connaissances.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ouvrage de référence"?
"ouvrage de référence" is spelled O-U-V-R-A-G-E- -D-E- -R-É-F-É-R-E-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \u.vʁaʒ də ʁe.fe.ʁɑ̃s\.
What does "ouvrage de référence" mean?
As a noun, "ouvrage de référence" means: Recueil d’informations classées qui n’est pas destiné à être lu de la première à la dernière page, mais consulté par rubriques, articles ou entrées.
How do you pronounce "ouvrage de référence"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ouvrage de référence" is \u.vʁaʒ də ʁe.fe.ʁɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ouvrage de référence" 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.