saint-pierre
Letters
12 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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saint-pierre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Poisson de l’Atlantique nord et de la Méditerranée, de la famille des zéidés (Zeus faber), vivant à proximité des côtes sur les fonds rocheux, au corps haut et comprimé. Pronounced \sɛ̃.pjɛʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saint-pierre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ̃.pjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for saint-pierre is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛ̃.pjɛʁ\. 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 saint-pierre 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 saint-pierre, spelled S-A-I-N-T---P-I-E-R-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Poisson de l’Atlantique nord et de la Méditerranée, de la famille des zéidés (Zeus faber), vivant à proximité des côtes sur les fonds rocheux, au corps haut et comprimé.
- 2Poisson de la famille des Oreosomatinae, dont le nom scientifique est Neocyttus rhomboidalis.
- 3Poisson du Pacifique sud de la famille des Oreosomatidae dont le nom scientifique est Pseudocyttus maculatus.
- 4Aiglefin, poisson dont le nom scientifique est Melanogrammus aeglefinus.
- 5Synonyme de plusieurs cépages donnant du raisin blanc : le colombaud et le saint-pierre doré.
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