puits de lumière

/\pɥi də ly.miɛʁ\/ noun

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

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puits de lumière is aFrenchnoun. It means: Gaine percée verticalement dans un bâtiment afin de donner de la lumière. Pronounced \pɥi də ly.miɛʁ\.

Key facts for puits de lumière
PropertyValue
Headwordpuits de lumière
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɥi də ly.miɛʁ\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

puits de lumière is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for puits de lumière is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɥi də ly.miɛʁ\. 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: "Gaine percée verticalement dans un bâtiment afin de donner de la lumière.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for puits de lumière 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 puits de lumière, spelled P-U-I-T-S- -D-E- -L-U-M-I-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Gaine percée verticalement dans un bâtiment afin de donner de la lumière.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "puits de lumière"?
"puits de lumière" is spelled P-U-I-T-S- -D-E- -L-U-M-I-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pɥi də ly.miɛʁ\.
What does "puits de lumière" mean?
As a noun, "puits de lumière" means: Gaine percée verticalement dans un bâtiment afin de donner de la lumière.
How do you pronounce "puits de lumière"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "puits de lumière" is \pɥi də ly.miɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.