riflard
Letters
7 characters
Language
French
word origin
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riflard is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte de grand rabot, légèrement plus court que la varlope, à une ou deux poignées, qui sert à dresser le bois de charpente. Son fer est légèrement arrondi mais sa semelle est plane. Pronounced \ʁi.flaʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | riflard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.flaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for riflard is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁi.flaʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for riflard 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 riflard, spelled R-I-F-L-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 grand rabot, légèrement plus court que la varlope, à une ou deux poignées, qui sert à dresser le bois de charpente. Son fer est légèrement arrondi mais sa semelle est plane.
- 2Ciseau en forme de palette, souvent à soie traversante, que l'on utilise pour ébavurer le plâtre ou le ciment.
- 3La laine la plus longue et la plus avantageuse d’une toison.
- 4Vieux parapluie.
- 5Pénis.
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