quintaine
Letters
9 characters
Language
French
word origin
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quintaine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Poteau fiché en terre, contre lequel on s’exerce à courir avec la lance ou à jeter des flèches. Pronounced \kɛ̃.tɛn\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quintaine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɛ̃.tɛn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for quintaine is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɛ̃.tɛn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for quintaine 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 quintaine, spelled Q-U-I-N-T-A-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Poteau fiché en terre, contre lequel on s’exerce à courir avec la lance ou à jeter des flèches.
- 2Mannequin monté sur un pivot et armé d’un bâton qui frappait celui qui le touchait maladroitement avec la lance.
- 3Meuble représentant le poteau du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est généralement représenté en pal. Il est composé d’un petit écu généralement plain et d’un mât au pied aiguisé. On blasonne l’écu en premier, le mât en second quand il est d’un autre émail.
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