sans-gêne
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9 characters
Language
French
word origin
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sans-gêne is aFrenchnoun. It means: Manière d’agir sans s’imposer de gêne, sans s’inquiéter de l’embarras ou du déplaisir qu’on peut causer. Pronounced \sɑ̃.ʒɛn\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sans-gêne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.ʒɛn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for sans-gêne is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɑ̃.ʒɛn\. 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 sans-gêne 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 sans-gêne, spelled S-A-N-S---G-Ê-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Manière d’agir sans s’imposer de gêne, sans s’inquiéter de l’embarras ou du déplaisir qu’on peut causer.
- 2Accessoire de cotillon constitué d’un bec à anche, ou d’un sifflet, et d’un tube de papier ou de plastique enroulé sur lui-même, qui se déroule lorsque l’on souffle dans le bec, en émettant éventuellement un son.
- 3Chaussure basse, sans lacet, avec des élastiques d'aisance permettant un chaussage et un déchaussage rapide.
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