pipette pasteur
The verdict
“pipette pasteur” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Fin tube (+ ou - 5mm) de verre ou de polyéthylène que l'on chauffe en son centre afin de l'étirer et de l'affiner jusqu'à rupture. On obtient donc deux tubes dont toutes les extrémités restent ouve...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pipette pasteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.pɛt.pas.œʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pipette pasteur” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pipette pasteur is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pi.pɛt.pas.œʁ\. 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: "Fin tube (+ ou - 5mm) de verre ou de polyéthylène que l'on chauffe en son centre afin de l'étirer et de l'affiner jusqu'à rupture. On obtient donc deux tubes dont toutes les extrémités restent ouve...".
No misspelling variants are generated for pipette pasteur 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 pipette pasteur, spelled P-I-P-E-T-T-E- -P-A-S-T-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fin tube (+ ou - 5mm) de verre ou de polyéthylène que l'on chauffe en son centre afin de l'étirer et de l'affiner jusqu'à rupture. On obtient donc deux tubes dont toutes les extrémités restent ouvertes et dont l'une est d'un diamètre de l'ordre de quelques micromètres.
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Using “pipette pasteur”
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- The one correct French spelling is P-I-P-E-T-T-E- -P-A-S-T-E-U-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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