queue-de-renard
Letters
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\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | queue-de-renard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kø də ʁə.naʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Sorte de ciseau à deux biseaux, servant à percer des trous.
- 2La queue même d'un renard que les doreurs employaient pour appliquer les feuilles d’or ou d’argent.
- 3Vulpin.
- 4Espèce ornementale d’amarante, Amaranthus caudatus.
- 5Espèce d’amarante jadis cultivée pour son grain, Amaranthus cruentus.
- 6Synonyme de mélampyre des champs (Melampyrum arvense).
- 7Synonyme de trèfle à feuilles étroites.
- 8Prêle des champs (Equisetum arvense).
- 9Comportement du développement dans l’eau des racines d’une plante de façon très allongée et très divisée.
- 10Trace de vomissure.
- 11Conduit du four sidérurgique selon le procédé catalan, pour évacuer le laitier.
- 12Longue 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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