peignure

/\pɛ.ɲyʁ\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

peignure is aFrenchnoun. It means: Coiffure. Pronounced \pɛ.ɲyʁ\.

Key facts for peignure
PropertyValue
Headwordpeignure
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɛ.ɲyʁ\
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

peignure 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 peignure is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛ.ɲyʁ\. 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 peignure 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 peignure, spelled P-E-I-G-N-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Coiffure.
  2. 2
    Cheveux qui tombent de la tête quand on se peigne.
  3. 3
    Action de peigner les cordages, c'est à dire de les détordre et d'en effiler le bout . Cordage peigné.
  4. 4
    Reste de chanvre utilisé pour la confection de cordage de faible qualité.
  5. 5
    Peignures de Russie : Déchets issus du peignage des crins de Russie. (Note : Le crin de Russie était une qualité moindre de crin par rapport au crin de France ou de Buenos-Aires).

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "peignure"?
"peignure" is spelled P-E-I-G-N-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pɛ.ɲyʁ\.
What does "peignure" mean?
As a noun, "peignure" means: Coiffure.
How do you pronounce "peignure"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "peignure" is \pɛ.ɲyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "peignure" come from?
"peignure" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.