troisième âge
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13 characters
Language
French
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troisième âge is aFrenchnoun. It means: Vieillesse ; période de vie active des personnes âgées, précédant le quatrième âge. Pronounced \tʁwa.zjɛ.m‿ɑʒ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | troisième âge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁwa.zjɛ.m‿ɑʒ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for troisième âge is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁwa.zjɛ.m‿ɑʒ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for troisième âge 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 troisième âge, spelled T-R-O-I-S-I-È-M-E- -Â-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vieillesse ; période de vie active des personnes âgées, précédant le quatrième âge.
- 2Ensemble des personnes âgées.
- 3période de la chronologie de la Terre du Milieu, durant laquelle prennent place les événements relatés dans les deux trilogies de J.R.R. Tolkien.
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