poisson volant
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14 characters
Language
French
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poisson volant is aFrenchnoun. It means: Poisson osseux marin de la famille des exocétidés (les exocets), aux nageoires pectorales très développées lui permettant d’effectuer des sauts hors de l’eau et de planer (glisser) sur une certaine... Pronounced \pwa.sɔ̃ vɔ.lɑ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poisson volant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwa.sɔ̃ vɔ.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for poisson volant is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pwa.sɔ̃ vɔ.lɑ̃\. 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 poisson volant 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 poisson volant, spelled P-O-I-S-S-O-N- -V-O-L-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Poisson osseux marin de la famille des exocétidés (les exocets), aux nageoires pectorales très développées lui permettant d’effectuer des sauts hors de l’eau et de planer (glisser) sur une certaine distance au-dessus de la surface de la mer.
- 2Poisson marin dont les nageoires pectorales très développées évoquent des « ailes » et qui peut faire de brefs sauts hors de l’eau, sans appartenir aux exocétidés (poissons volants au sens strict).
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