table des matières

/\tabl de ma.tjɛʁ\/ noun

Letters

18 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

table des matières is aFrenchnoun. It means: Page résumant le contenu d'un livre et indiquant la pagination des différents chapitres ou de différentes sections. Pronounced \tabl de ma.tjɛʁ\.

Key facts for table des matières
PropertyValue
Headwordtable des matières
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tabl de ma.tjɛʁ\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

table des matières is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for table des matières is 18 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tabl de ma.tjɛʁ\. 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: "Page résumant le contenu d'un livre et indiquant la pagination des différents chapitres ou de différentes sections.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for table des matières 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 table des matières, spelled T-A-B-L-E- -D-E-S- -M-A-T-I-È-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Page résumant le contenu d'un livre et indiquant la pagination des différents chapitres ou de différentes sections.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "table des matières"?
"table des matières" is spelled T-A-B-L-E- -D-E-S- -M-A-T-I-È-R-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \tabl de ma.tjɛʁ\.
What does "table des matières" mean?
As a noun, "table des matières" means: Page résumant le contenu d'un livre et indiquant la pagination des différents chapitres ou de différentes sections.
How do you pronounce "table des matières"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "table des matières" is \tabl de ma.tjɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "table des matières" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.