rose des vents

/\ʁoz de vɑ̃\/ noun

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

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rose des vents is aFrenchnoun. It means: Figure portée sur le cadran de la boussole ou sur les cartes, et où sont marquées trente-deux divisions destinées à indiquer l’aire de vent. Pronounced \ʁoz de vɑ̃\.

Key facts for rose des vents
PropertyValue
Headwordrose des vents
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁoz de vɑ̃\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

rose des vents 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 rose des vents is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁoz de vɑ̃\. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for rose des vents 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 rose des vents, spelled R-O-S-E- -D-E-S- -V-E-N-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Figure portée sur le cadran de la boussole ou sur les cartes, et où sont marquées trente-deux divisions destinées à indiquer l’aire de vent.
  2. 2
    Meuble représentant un assemblage d’étoiles indiquant les points cardinaux et directions intermédiaires dans les armoiries. Il n’y a pas de représentation figée mais généralement, elle est représentée à 16 branches. Les points cardinaux ne sont pas indiqués. À rapprocher de boussole.
  3. 3
    Graphique représentant la fréquence et la direction des vents.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rose des vents"?
"rose des vents" is spelled R-O-S-E- -D-E-S- -V-E-N-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁoz de vɑ̃\.
What does "rose des vents" mean?
As a noun, "rose des vents" means: Figure portée sur le cadran de la boussole ou sur les cartes, et où sont marquées trente-deux divisions destinées à indiquer l’aire de vent.
How do you pronounce "rose des vents"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rose des vents" is \ʁoz de vɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rose des vents" 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.