queue-de-rat

/\kø.də.ʁa\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

queue-de-rat is aFrenchnoun. It means: Lime fine, cylindrique et pointue. Pronounced \kø.də.ʁa\.

Key facts for queue-de-rat
PropertyValue
Headwordqueue-de-rat
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kø.də.ʁa\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for queue-de-rat is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kø.də.ʁa\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 16 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for queue-de-rat 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 queue-de-rat, spelled Q-U-E-U-E---D-E---R-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Lime fine, cylindrique et pointue.
  2. 2
    Tabatière en écorce dont le couvercle est muni d’une petite lanière de cuir semblable à une queue de rat.
  3. 3
    Petit cigare.
  4. 4
    Queue petite et dégarnie de crins, en parlant de celle d’un cheval.
  5. 5
    Coiffure en queue-de-cheval longue et filiforme.
  6. 6
    Nom vernaculaire de plusieurs graminées ou Poacées (Poaceae) :
  7. 7
    Nom vernaculaire de la prêle des champs (Equisetum arvense) (famille des Équisétacées).
  8. 8
    Nom vernaculaire d'Aporocactus flagelliformis.
  9. 9
    Nom vernaculaire de plusieurs plantes du genre Amaranthus.
  10. 10
    Nom vernaculaire du grand plantain du fait de la forme de ses inflorescences
  11. 11
    Petite cordelette ou bande de tissu coupé en biais puis cousue très finement.
  12. 12
    Synonyme de grenadier (poisson).
  13. 13
    Extrémité amincie d’un cordage.
  14. 14
    Dartre allongée formant sur les jambes des chevaux une ligne dépourvue de poils.
  15. 15
    Extrémité du bas de ligne située après la tresse et constituée de sections de fils en nylon de diamètres allant en diminuant jusqu’à la mouche ou au streamer.
  16. 16
    Longue mèche enduite de cire.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "queue-de-rat"?
"queue-de-rat" is spelled Q-U-E-U-E---D-E---R-A-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kø.də.ʁa\.
What does "queue-de-rat" mean?
As a noun, "queue-de-rat" means: Lime fine, cylindrique et pointue.
How do you pronounce "queue-de-rat"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "queue-de-rat" is \kø.də.ʁa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "queue-de-rat" come from?
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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.