paire de ciseaux

/\pɛʁ də si.zo\/ noun

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

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Misspellings

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paire de ciseaux is aFrenchnoun. It means: Instrument à deux lames pivotant sur un axe qui se chevauchent en partie pour couper ou rogner. Pronounced \pɛʁ də si.zo\.

Key facts for paire de ciseaux
PropertyValue
Headwordpaire de ciseaux
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɛʁ də si.zo\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

paire de ciseaux 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 paire de ciseaux is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛʁ də si.zo\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Instrument à deux lames pivotant sur un axe qui se chevauchent en partie pour couper ou rogner.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for paire de ciseaux 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 paire de ciseaux, spelled P-A-I-R-E- -D-E- -C-I-S-E-A-U-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Instrument à deux lames pivotant sur un axe qui se chevauchent en partie pour couper ou rogner.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "paire de ciseaux"?
"paire de ciseaux" is spelled P-A-I-R-E- -D-E- -C-I-S-E-A-U-X. The IPA pronunciation is \pɛʁ də si.zo\.
What does "paire de ciseaux" mean?
As a noun, "paire de ciseaux" means: Instrument à deux lames pivotant sur un axe qui se chevauchent en partie pour couper ou rogner.
How do you pronounce "paire de ciseaux"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "paire de ciseaux" is \pɛʁ də si.zo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "paire de ciseaux" 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.