ville aux cent clochers
Letters
23 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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ville aux cent clochers is aFrenchnoun. It means: Caen (ville de Normandie). Pronounced \vil‿o sɑ̃ klɔ.ʃe\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ville aux cent clochers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vil‿o sɑ̃ klɔ.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for ville aux cent clochers is 23 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vil‿o sɑ̃ klɔ.ʃe\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ville aux cent clochers 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 ville aux cent clochers, spelled V-I-L-L-E- -A-U-X- -C-E-N-T- -C-L-O-C-H-E-R-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Caen (ville de Normandie).
- 2Rouen (ville de Normandie).
- 3Montréal (ville du Québec).
- 4Prague (capitale de la Tchéquie).
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