rendez-vous
Letters
11 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
rendez-vous is aFrenchnoun. It means: Convention que deux ou plusieurs personnes font de se trouver ensemble un certain jour, à une certaine heure, en un lieu désigné. Pronounced \ʁɑ̃.de.vu\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rendez-vous |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɑ̃.de.vu\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rendez-vous is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɑ̃.de.vu\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for rendez-vous 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 rendez-vous, spelled R-E-N-D-E-Z---V-O-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Convention que deux ou plusieurs personnes font de se trouver ensemble un certain jour, à une certaine heure, en un lieu désigné.
- 2Réunion entre deux amoureux.
- 3Lieu où l’on doit se rendre.
- 4Lieu où certaines personnes ont coutume de se réunir.
- 5Il se dit en parlant des animaux.
- 6Il se dit en parlant d'un appel vidéo via Internet.
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