ville aux cent clochers

/\vil‿o sɑ̃ klɔ.ʃe\/ noun

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Language

French

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ville aux cent clochers is aFrenchnoun. It means: Caen (ville de Normandie). Pronounced \vil‿o sɑ̃ klɔ.ʃe\.

Key facts for ville aux cent clochers
PropertyValue
Headwordville aux cent clochers
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vil‿o sɑ̃ klɔ.ʃe\
Letters23
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

ville aux cent clochers is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

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

  1. 1
    Caen (ville de Normandie).
  2. 2
    Rouen (ville de Normandie).
  3. 3
    Montréal (ville du Québec).
  4. 4
    Prague (capitale de la Tchéquie).

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ville aux cent clochers"?
"ville aux cent clochers" is spelled V-I-L-L-E- -A-U-X- -C-E-N-T- -C-L-O-C-H-E-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is \vil‿o sɑ̃ klɔ.ʃe\.
What does "ville aux cent clochers" mean?
As a noun, "ville aux cent clochers" means: Caen (ville de Normandie).
How do you pronounce "ville aux cent clochers"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ville aux cent clochers" is \vil‿o sɑ̃ klɔ.ʃe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ville aux cent clochers" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.