racine carrée

/\ʁa.sin ka.ʁe\/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

racine carrée is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nombre réel positif qui, une fois multiplié par lui-même, donne le nombre réel en question. La racine carrée de x est notée √, utilisant √. Pronounced \ʁa.sin ka.ʁe\.

Key facts for racine carrée
PropertyValue
Headwordracine carrée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁa.sin ka.ʁe\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for racine carrée is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁa.sin ka.ʁe\. 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: "Nombre réel positif qui, une fois multiplié par lui-même, donne le nombre réel en question. La racine carrée de x est notée √, utilisant √.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for racine carrée in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 racine carrée, spelled R-A-C-I-N-E- -C-A-R-R-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nombre réel positif qui, une fois multiplié par lui-même, donne le nombre réel en question. La racine carrée de x est notée √, utilisant √.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "racine carrée"?
"racine carrée" is spelled R-A-C-I-N-E- -C-A-R-R-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁa.sin ka.ʁe\.
What does "racine carrée" mean?
As a noun, "racine carrée" means: Nombre réel positif qui, une fois multiplié par lui-même, donne le nombre réel en question. La racine carrée de x est notée √, utilisant √.
How do you pronounce "racine carrée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "racine carrée" is \ʁa.sin ka.ʁe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "racine carrée" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.