talonner
Letters
8 characters
Language
French
word origin
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talonner is aFrenchverb. It means: Presser les flancs d’un cheval du talon ou de l’éperon. Pronounced \ta.lɔ.ne\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | talonner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ta.lɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for talonner is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ta.lɔ.ne\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for talonner 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 talonner, spelled T-A-L-O-N-N-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Presser les flancs d’un cheval du talon ou de l’éperon.
- 2Au rugby, lors d'une mêlée, tirer le ballon dans son camp à coups de talon. → voir talonneur
- 3Suivre quelqu’un de près, marcher sur ses talons.
- 4Importuner, presser vivement, jusqu’à l’importunité.
- 5Serrer de près ; presser ; tourmenter.
- 6Toucher le fond de la mer avec le talon de la quille.
- 7Pour un train, aborder, par le talon (dans le sens de la convergence), une aiguille non disposée pour sa voie.
- 8Porter des talons à ses chaussures.
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