saint des saints
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16 characters
Language
French
word origin
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0
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saint des saints is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie centrale la plus intérieure et la plus sacrée du tabernacle, et ensuite du temple de Salomon, celle où l’arche était renfermée. Le Saint des saints est appelé débir par les hébreux. Pronounced \sɛ̃ dɛ sɛ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saint des saints |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ̃ dɛ sɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for saint des saints is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛ̃ dɛ sɛ̃\. 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 misspelling variants are generated for saint des saints in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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 saint des saints, spelled S-A-I-N-T- -D-E-S- -S-A-I-N-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie centrale la plus intérieure et la plus sacrée du tabernacle, et ensuite du temple de Salomon, celle où l’arche était renfermée. Le Saint des saints est appelé débir par les hébreux.
- 2Lieu d'une importance sacrée.
- 3Partie presque inaccessible d'une chose.
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