quatrième forme normale
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.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 23
- letters
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...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quatrième forme normale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.tʁi.jɛm fɔʁm nɔʁ.mal\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quatrième forme normale” sits in French frequency
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
- 1Relation 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.
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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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