vague de chaleur

/\vaɡ də ʃa.lœʁ\/ noun

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

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vague de chaleur is aFrenchnoun. It means: Épisode météorologique durant lequel la température est inhabituellement élevée. Pronounced \vaɡ də ʃa.lœʁ\.

Key facts for vague de chaleur
PropertyValue
Headwordvague de chaleur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vaɡ də ʃa.lœʁ\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

vague de chaleur is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for vague de chaleur is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vaɡ də ʃa.lœʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Épisode météorologique durant lequel la température est inhabituellement élevée.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for vague de chaleur 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 vague de chaleur, spelled V-A-G-U-E- -D-E- -C-H-A-L-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Épisode météorologique durant lequel la température est inhabituellement élevée.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vague de chaleur"?
"vague de chaleur" is spelled V-A-G-U-E- -D-E- -C-H-A-L-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \vaɡ də ʃa.lœʁ\.
What does "vague de chaleur" mean?
As a noun, "vague de chaleur" means: Épisode météorologique durant lequel la température est inhabituellement élevée.
How do you pronounce "vague de chaleur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vague de chaleur" is \vaɡ də ʃa.lœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vague de chaleur" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.