verrine
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7 characters
Language
French
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verrine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petit récipient en verre. Pronounced \ve.ʁin\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verrine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ve.ʁin\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for verrine is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ve.ʁin\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for verrine 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 verrine, spelled V-E-R-R-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petit récipient en verre.
- 2Bocal à confiture.
- 3Petit récipient en verre, utilisé pour servir un mets de façon décorative. cf. terrine
- 4Vérine, lampe de verre suspendue au-dessus du compas, pour éclairer le timonier pendant la nuit.(Variante orthographique : verine.)
- 5Sorte de cloche de verre composée d'une ossature métallique vitrée.
- 6→ voir forte vis.
- 7Synonyme de verrière.
- 8Synonyme de verrière dans le sens de vitre placée devant un tableau pour le protéger.
- 9Synonyme de vitrine.
- 10Discours de Cicéron contre Verrès.
- 11Pièce de verre, de forme variable, qui diffuse la lumière dans une lampe ou un luminaire.
- 12Boîtier contenant plusieurs avertisseurs lumineux, et indiquant l'état de l'automate d'une machine : en attente, en fonctionnement, alarme…
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