quatrième forme normale

/\ka.tʁi.jɛm fɔʁm nɔʁ.mal\/ noun

The verdict

“quatrième forme normale” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

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23
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Dominant Wiktionary sense: Relation d'une base de données, qui pour toute relation de dimension n en forme normale de Boyce-Codd, doit avoir un sens pour les relations de dimension n-1 construites sur sa collection. Il ne do...

Key facts for quatrième forme normale
PropertyValue
Headwordquatrième forme normale
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.tʁi.jɛm fɔʁm nɔʁ.mal\
Letters23
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “quatrième forme normale” sits in French frequency

quatrième forme normale falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for quatrième forme normale is 23 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.tʁi.jɛm fɔʁm nɔʁ.mal\. 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: "Relation d'une base de données, qui pour toute relation de dimension n en forme normale de Boyce-Codd, doit avoir un sens pour les relations de dimension n-1 construites sur sa collection. Il ne do...".

No misspelling variants are generated for quatrième forme normale 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 quatrième forme normale, spelled Q-U-A-T-R-I-È-M-E- -F-O-R-M-E- -N-O-R-M-A-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relation d'une base de données, qui pour toute relation de dimension n en forme normale de Boyce-Codd, doit avoir un sens pour les relations de dimension n-1 construites sur sa collection. Il ne doit pas être possible de reconstituer les occurrences de la relation de dimension n par jointure de deux relations de dimension n-1.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

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How do you spell "quatrième forme normale"?
"quatrième forme normale" is spelled Q-U-A-T-R-I-È-M-E- -F-O-R-M-E- -N-O-R-M-A-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.tʁi.jɛm fɔʁm nɔʁ.mal\.
What does "quatrième forme normale" mean?
As a noun, "quatrième forme normale" means: Relation d'une base de données, qui pour toute relation de dimension n en forme normale de Boyce-Codd, doit avoir un sens pour les relations de dimension n-1 construites sur sa collection. Il ne do...
How do you pronounce "quatrième forme normale"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quatrième forme normale" is \ka.tʁi.jɛm fɔʁm nɔʁ.mal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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  • The one correct French spelling is Q-U-A-T-R-I-È-M-E- -F-O-R-M-E- -N-O-R-M-A-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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