pain au lait
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12 characters
Language
French
word origin
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pain au lait is aFrenchnoun. It means: Produit commercialisé en boulangerie, sous la forme oblongue ou ronde d'un petit pain, à l'aspect, à la consistance et à la saveur voisines de celle de la brioche. Pronounced \pɛ̃ o lɛ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pain au lait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛ̃ o lɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for pain au lait is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛ̃ o lɛ\. 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 pain au lait 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 pain au lait, spelled P-A-I-N- -A-U- -L-A-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Produit commercialisé en boulangerie, sous la forme oblongue ou ronde d'un petit pain, à l'aspect, à la consistance et à la saveur voisines de celle de la brioche.
- 2Dessert constitué d’œufs au lait avec du sucre.
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