roue dentée
Letters
11 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
roue dentée is aFrenchnoun. It means: Roue munie de dents sur sa périphérie et tournant sur un axe fixe, utilisée en particulier dans les engrenages. Pronounced \ʁu dɑ̃.te\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roue dentée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁu dɑ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for roue dentée is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁu dɑ̃.te\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for roue dentée 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 roue dentée, spelled R-O-U-E- -D-E-N-T-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Roue munie de dents sur sa périphérie et tournant sur un axe fixe, utilisée en particulier dans les engrenages.
- 2Meuble représentant dans les armoiries une roue dont le pourtour est garni de dents. À rapprocher de engrenage, roue d’engrenage, roue de moulin, roue de Sainte-Catherine et roue d’horloge.
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