sui generis
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11 characters
Language
French
word origin
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sui generis is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est particulier, spécial, qu’on ne peut comparer à rien d’autre. Pronounced \sɥi ʒe.ne.ʁis\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sui generis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \sɥi ʒe.ne.ʁis\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for sui generis is 11 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɥi ʒe.ne.ʁis\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Qui est particulier, spécial, qu’on ne peut comparer à rien d’autre.".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for sui generis 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 sui generis, spelled S-U-I- -G-E-N-E-R-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est particulier, spécial, qu’on ne peut comparer à rien d’autre.
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