paille de fer

/\paj də fɛʁ\/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

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Confusables

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similar word pairs

paille de fer is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte de mousse de fibres de fer. Pronounced \paj də fɛʁ\.

Key facts for paille de fer
PropertyValue
Headwordpaille de fer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\paj də fɛʁ\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

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

  1. 1
    Sorte de mousse de fibres de fer.
  2. 2
    Paquet 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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "paille de fer"?
"paille de fer" is spelled P-A-I-L-L-E- -D-E- -F-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \paj də fɛʁ\.
What does "paille de fer" mean?
As a noun, "paille de fer" means: Sorte de mousse de fibres de fer.
How do you pronounce "paille de fer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "paille de fer" is \paj də fɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "paille de fer" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.