piqûre de rappel
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16 characters
Language
French
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piqûre de rappel is aFrenchnoun. It means: Injection d’un vaccin, déjà reçu antérieurement par le patient, pour optimiser ses défenses immunitaires en stimulant la production d’anticorps. Pronounced \pi.kyʁ də ʁa.pɛl\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piqûre de rappel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.kyʁ də ʁa.pɛl\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for piqûre de rappel is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pi.kyʁ də ʁa.pɛl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for piqûre de rappel 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 piqûre de rappel, spelled P-I-Q-Û-R-E- -D-E- -R-A-P-P-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Injection d’un vaccin, déjà reçu antérieurement par le patient, pour optimiser ses défenses immunitaires en stimulant la production d’anticorps.
- 2Acte amical ou non, destiné à rappeler à quelqu’un ce qu’il doit faire ou arrêter de faire.
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