table rase
Letters
10 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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table rase is aFrenchnoun. It means: Lame, plaque de cuivre ou d’autre métal, pierre unie, planche, etc., sur laquelle il n’y a encore rien de gravé. Pronounced \tabl ʁaz\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | table rase |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tabl ʁaz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for table rase is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tabl ʁaz\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for table rase 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 rase, spelled T-A-B-L-E- -R-A-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lame, plaque de cuivre ou d’autre métal, pierre unie, planche, etc., sur laquelle il n’y a encore rien de gravé.
- 2Plaque de marbre que l'on a burinée pour en effacer les inscriptions.
- 3Concept philosophique controversé, notamment par la psychologie évolutionniste, selon lequel l’esprit humain naîtrait vierge et s’imprimerait par la seule expérience.
- 4Esprit d’un enfant ou d’une personne qui, n’ayant pas encore de notions sur la matière dont il s’agit de l’instruire, peut aisément recevoir les impressions, les idées qu’on veut lui donner.
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