targette
Letters
8 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
targette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petite plaque de métal, qui porte un verrou plat ou rond et qu’on met aux portes, aux fenêtres, etc., pour servir à les fermer. Pronounced \taʁ.ʒɛt\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | targette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \taʁ.ʒɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for targette is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \taʁ.ʒɛt\. 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 targette 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 targette, spelled T-A-R-G-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petite plaque de métal, qui porte un verrou plat ou rond et qu’on met aux portes, aux fenêtres, etc., pour servir à les fermer.
- 2Petite targe.
- 3Chaussure.
- 4Fil métallique noyé dans une rainure au dos des dalles de marbre ou de pierre pour les consolider.
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