-phage
Letters
6 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
-phage is aFrenchsuffix. It means: Qui se nourrit de quelque chose (indique une habitude alimentaire). Pronounced \faʒ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | -phage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Suffix |
| IPA | \faʒ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for -phage is 6 letters long, classified as asuffix, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \faʒ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for -phage 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 -phage, spelled --P-H-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui se nourrit de quelque chose (indique une habitude alimentaire).
- 2Qui se nourrit d’une certaine manière (indique une façon de manger, de s’alimenter).
- 3Qui consomme quelque chose.
- 4Qui avale quelque chose.
- 5Qui mange, dévore (qui consume, ronge, détruit) quelque chose.
- 6Qui mange, s’attaque à quelque chose (par extension, qui est contre).
- 7Qui est relatif aux macrophages.
- 8Qui est relatif aux phages (bactériophages).
- 9Qui est relatif à la fonction d’alimentation, à l’action de manger.
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