pantographe
Letters
11 characters
Language
French
word origin
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0
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pantographe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Instrument au moyen duquel on peut mécaniquement copier, agrandir ou réduire des dessins ou des gravures. Pronounced \pɑ̃.tɔ.ɡʁaf\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pantographe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɑ̃.tɔ.ɡʁaf\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for pantographe is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɑ̃.tɔ.ɡʁaf\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for pantographe 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 pantographe, spelled P-A-N-T-O-G-R-A-P-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrument au moyen duquel on peut mécaniquement copier, agrandir ou réduire des dessins ou des gravures.
- 2Instrument dont se servent les sculpteurs pour mettre au point les bustes, les statues.
- 3Dispositif articulé qui permet à une locomotive électrique de capter le courant par frottement sur la caténaire.
- 4Dispositif articulé servant de support.
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