veilleur de nuit
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16 characters
Language
French
word origin
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veilleur de nuit is aFrenchnoun. It means: Vigile, veilleur qui assurait la surveillance des villes la nuit et qui était chargé de crier les heures durant la nuit. Pronounced \vɛ.jœʁ də nɥi\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | veilleur de nuit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛ.jœʁ də nɥi\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for veilleur de nuit is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vɛ.jœʁ də nɥi\. 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 veilleur de nuit 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 veilleur de nuit, spelled V-E-I-L-L-E-U-R- -D-E- -N-U-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vigile, veilleur qui assurait la surveillance des villes la nuit et qui était chargé de crier les heures durant la nuit.
- 2Gardien de bâtiments civils la nuit.
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