rose des vents
Letters
14 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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Confusables
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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\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rose des vents |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁoz de vɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Figure 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.
- 2Meuble 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.
- 3Graphique représentant la fréquence et la direction des vents.
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