paralangage
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11 characters
Language
French
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paralangage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Communication non-verbale, par les gestes, les mimiques, le ton, etc. Pronounced \pa.ʁa.lɑ̃.ɡaʒ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paralangage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ʁa.lɑ̃.ɡaʒ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for paralangage is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.ʁa.lɑ̃.ɡaʒ\. 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: "Communication non-verbale, par les gestes, les mimiques, le ton, etc.".
No misspelling variants are generated for paralangage 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 paralangage, spelled P-A-R-A-L-A-N-G-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Communication non-verbale, par les gestes, les mimiques, le ton, etc.
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