paille de fer
Letters
13 characters
Language
French
word origin
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paille de fer is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte de mousse de fibres de fer. Pronounced \paj də fɛʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paille de fer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \paj də fɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for paille de fer is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \paj də fɛʁ\. 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 paille de fer 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 paille de fer, spelled P-A-I-L-L-E- -D-E- -F-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte de mousse de fibres de fer.
- 2Paquet de copeaux métalliques, de la taille d'une main, destiné au décapage et au lissage du bois, en particulier des parquets.
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