patinette
Letters
9 characters
Language
French
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patinette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Jouet d’enfant muni d’un guidon et composé d’une planche portée par deux ou trois roues sur laquelle on pose un pied, l’autre étant utilisé pour la propulsion. Pronounced \pa.ti.nɛt\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | patinette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ti.nɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for patinette is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.ti.nɛt\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for patinette 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 patinette, spelled P-A-T-I-N-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Jouet d’enfant muni d’un guidon et composé d’une planche portée par deux ou trois roues sur laquelle on pose un pied, l’autre étant utilisé pour la propulsion.
- 2Engin de déplacement et de sport de conception identique au précédent mais prévu pour adultes. Spécifiquement conçue pour la vitesse, la patinette se caractérise par une roue avant de grande taille (650 à 700 mm). Certains modèles permettent d’atteler un chien de traîneau.
- 3Skis très courts.
- 4Sport pratiqué à l’aide de ces skis.
- 5Carré de tissu à mettre sous ses pieds pour ne pas salir, ou, plus particulièrement, pour ne pas rayer le parquet.
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