queue-de-renard

/\kø də ʁə.naʁ\/ noun

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15 characters

Language

French

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queue-de-renard is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte de ciseau à deux biseaux, servant à percer des trous. Pronounced \kø də ʁə.naʁ\.

Key facts for queue-de-renard
PropertyValue
Headwordqueue-de-renard
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kø də ʁə.naʁ\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

queue-de-renard 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-renard is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kø də ʁə.naʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

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

Definition

  1. 1
    Sorte de ciseau à deux biseaux, servant à percer des trous.
  2. 2
    La queue même d'un renard que les doreurs employaient pour appliquer les feuilles d’or ou d’argent.
  3. 3
    Vulpin.
  4. 4
    Espèce ornementale d’amarante, Amaranthus caudatus.
  5. 5
    Espèce d’amarante jadis cultivée pour son grain, Amaranthus cruentus.
  6. 6
    Synonyme de mélampyre des champs (Melampyrum arvense).
  7. 7
    Synonyme de trèfle à feuilles étroites.
  8. 8
    Prêle des champs (Equisetum arvense).
  9. 9
    Comportement du développement dans l’eau des racines d’une plante de façon très allongée et très divisée.
  10. 10
    Trace de vomissure.
  11. 11
    Conduit du four sidérurgique selon le procédé catalan, pour évacuer le laitier.
  12. 12
    Longue traînasse de racines qui entrent dans les tuyaux de conduite et les engorgent, et qu’on en retire au moyen d’une sonde à tire-bourre.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "queue-de-renard"?
"queue-de-renard" is spelled Q-U-E-U-E---D-E---R-E-N-A-R-D. The IPA pronunciation is \kø də ʁə.naʁ\.
What does "queue-de-renard" mean?
As a noun, "queue-de-renard" means: Sorte de ciseau à deux biseaux, servant à percer des trous.
How do you pronounce "queue-de-renard"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "queue-de-renard" is \kø də ʁə.naʁ\. 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. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.