Spanne
Letters
6 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
Spanne is aFrenchnoun. It means: Abréviation de Handspanne : Empan, unité de longueur. Pronounced \ˈʃpanə\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Spanne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈʃpanə\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Spanne is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈʃpanə\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Spanne 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 Spanne, spelled S-P-A-N-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Abréviation de Handspanne : Empan, unité de longueur.
- 2Abréviation de Zeitspanne : Intervalle, laps de temps normalement petit ; période, durée entre deux événements proches.
- 3Distance entre deux points, interstice, (petite) longueur.
- 4Intervalle, différence, écart, marge, la gamme, fourchette entre deux valeurs.
- 5Intervalle, différence, écart, marge, la gamme, fourchette entre deux valeurs.
- 6Intervalle, différence, écart, marge, la gamme, fourchette entre deux valeurs.
- 7Intervalle, différence, écart, marge, la gamme, fourchette entre deux valeurs.
- 8Intervalle, différence, écart, marge, la gamme, fourchette entre deux valeurs.
- 9Intervalle, différence, écart, marge, la gamme, fourchette entre deux valeurs.
- 10: étendue, gamme, éventail, domaine en tout genre.
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