vieille lune

/\vjɛj lyn\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

vieille lune is aFrenchnoun. It means: Phase précédant la nouvelle lune : fin du dernier croissant. Pronounced \vjɛj lyn\.

Key facts for vieille lune
PropertyValue
Headwordvieille lune
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vjɛj lyn\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for vieille lune is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vjɛj lyn\. 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 vieille lune 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 vieille lune, spelled V-I-E-I-L-L-E- -L-U-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Phase précédant la nouvelle lune : fin du dernier croissant.
  2. 2
    Idée désuète, qui n’a pas tenu ses promesses.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vieille lune"?
"vieille lune" is spelled V-I-E-I-L-L-E- -L-U-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \vjɛj lyn\.
What does "vieille lune" mean?
As a noun, "vieille lune" means: Phase précédant la nouvelle lune : fin du dernier croissant.
How do you pronounce "vieille lune"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vieille lune" is \vjɛj lyn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vieille lune" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.