travaux publics
Letters
15 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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travaux publics is aFrenchnoun. It means: Peine de travaux forcés infligée par la justice militaire. Pronounced \tʁa.vo py.blik\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | travaux publics |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁa.vo py.blik\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for travaux publics is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁa.vo py.blik\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for travaux publics 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 travaux publics, spelled T-R-A-V-A-U-X- -P-U-B-L-I-C-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Peine de travaux forcés infligée par la justice militaire.
- 2Ensemble de travaux de construction, d’aménagement ou d’entretien effectué par l’administration pour son compte dans un but d’intérêt général, ou en exécution d'une mission de service public.
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