vieux slave

/\vjø slav\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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vieux slave is aFrenchnoun. It means: Langue slave la plus ancienne qui soit attestée par les textes liturgiques des évangélisateurs chrétiens. Pronounced \vjø slav\.

Key facts for vieux slave
PropertyValue
Headwordvieux slave
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vjø slav\
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

vieux slave 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 vieux slave is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vjø slav\. 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: "Langue slave la plus ancienne qui soit attestée par les textes liturgiques des évangélisateurs chrétiens.".

No misspelling variants are generated for vieux slave 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 vieux slave, spelled V-I-E-U-X- -S-L-A-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Langue slave la plus ancienne qui soit attestée par les textes liturgiques des évangélisateurs chrétiens.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vieux slave"?
"vieux slave" is spelled V-I-E-U-X- -S-L-A-V-E. The IPA pronunciation is \vjø slav\.
What does "vieux slave" mean?
As a noun, "vieux slave" means: Langue slave la plus ancienne qui soit attestée par les textes liturgiques des évangélisateurs chrétiens.
How do you pronounce "vieux slave"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vieux slave" is \vjø slav\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vieux slave" 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.