paire de lunettes

/\pɛʁ də ly.nɛt\/ noun

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Language

French

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paire de lunettes is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ensemble de deux verres de lunettes de correction de vue placés au-devant des deux yeux et assemblés par une monture qui repose sur le nez et se fixe derrière les oreilles. Pronounced \pɛʁ də ly.nɛt\.

Key facts for paire de lunettes
PropertyValue
Headwordpaire de lunettes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɛʁ də ly.nɛt\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

paire de lunettes 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 paire de lunettes is 17 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛʁ də ly.nɛt\. 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: "Ensemble de deux verres de lunettes de correction de vue placés au-devant des deux yeux et assemblés par une monture qui repose sur le nez et se fixe derrière les oreilles.".

No misspelling variants are generated for paire de lunettes 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 paire de lunettes, spelled P-A-I-R-E- -D-E- -L-U-N-E-T-T-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ensemble de deux verres de lunettes de correction de vue placés au-devant des deux yeux et assemblés par une monture qui repose sur le nez et se fixe derrière les oreilles.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "paire de lunettes"?
"paire de lunettes" is spelled P-A-I-R-E- -D-E- -L-U-N-E-T-T-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pɛʁ də ly.nɛt\.
What does "paire de lunettes" mean?
As a noun, "paire de lunettes" means: Ensemble de deux verres de lunettes de correction de vue placés au-devant des deux yeux et assemblés par une monture qui repose sur le nez et se fixe derrière les oreilles.
How do you pronounce "paire de lunettes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "paire de lunettes" is \pɛʁ də ly.nɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "paire de lunettes" 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.