phaéton
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#84,166
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
phaéton is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte de voiture hippomobile, à quatre roues, haute et légère. Pronounced \fa.e.tɔ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | phaéton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.e.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,166 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for phaéton is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fa.e.tɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #84,166 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for phaéton in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 phaéton, spelled P-H-A-É-T-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte de voiture hippomobile, à quatre roues, haute et légère.
- 2Voiture automobile de la fin du XIXᵉ et du début du XXᵉ siècle, avec plusieurs rangées de sièges.
- 3Cocher.
- 4Genre d'oiseau de mer de l'ordre des phaéthontiformes et de la famille des phaéthontidés, de taille moyenne, à ailes longues et étroites, nichant sur les îles océaniques des régions tropicales, et caractérisé par des plumes rectrices centrales très allongées, par des pattes totipalmées placées en position postéro-inférieure extrême du corps, rendant toute marche impossible, et par un mode de nourrissement des jeunes par régurgitation, à l'instar des pélécaniformes.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #84,166 in French
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