pagnolade
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9 characters
Language
French
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Misspellings
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pagnolade is aFrenchnoun. It means: Film ou autre production culturelle qui évoque l’œuvre de Marcel Pagnol et offre une vision stéréotypée voire caricaturale de Marseille ou de la Provence. Pronounced \pa.ɲɔ.lad\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pagnolade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ɲɔ.lad\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for pagnolade is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.ɲɔ.lad\. 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 pagnolade 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 pagnolade, spelled P-A-G-N-O-L-A-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Film ou autre production culturelle qui évoque l’œuvre de Marcel Pagnol et offre une vision stéréotypée voire caricaturale de Marseille ou de la Provence.
- 2Situation, propos ou attitude volontairement ou involontairement caricaturale évoquant les personnages et scènes comiques des films « marseillais » de Pagnol.
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