vesica piscis
Letters
13 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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similar word pairs
vesica piscis is aFrenchnoun. It means: Intersection de deux cercles de même diamètre dont le centre de chacun fait partie de la circonférence de l’autre. Pronounced \ve.zi.ka pi.sis\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vesica piscis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ve.zi.ka pi.sis\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for vesica piscis is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ve.zi.ka pi.sis\. 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 misspelling variants are generated for vesica piscis in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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 vesica piscis, spelled V-E-S-I-C-A- -P-I-S-C-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Intersection de deux cercles de même diamètre dont le centre de chacun fait partie de la circonférence de l’autre.
- 2Auréole ou sceau reprenant cette figure géométrique.
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