presse-papiers
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14 characters
Language
French
word origin
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presse-papiers is aFrenchnoun. It means: Objet de marbre, de métal, de bois, etc., qu’on pose sur les papiers d’un bureau pour empêcher qu’ils ne se dispersent. Pronounced \pʁɛs.pa.pje\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | presse-papiers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɛs.pa.pje\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for presse-papiers is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɛs.pa.pje\. 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 misspelling variants are generated for presse-papiers 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 presse-papiers, spelled P-R-E-S-S-E---P-A-P-I-E-R-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Objet de marbre, de métal, de bois, etc., qu’on pose sur les papiers d’un bureau pour empêcher qu’ils ne se dispersent.
- 2Élément du système d’exploitation qui stocke temporairement les données dans les opérations de copié-collé.
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