xénoglossie
Letters
11 characters
Language
French
word origin
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0
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xénoglossie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte de glossolalie par laquelle une personne en état de conscience modifiée, par exemple un médium, s’exprime dans une ou plusieurs langues étrangères qu’il semble n’avoir jamais apprises. Pronounced \ɡze.no.ɡlɔ.si\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | xénoglossie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡze.no.ɡlɔ.si\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for xénoglossie is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡze.no.ɡlɔ.si\. 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: "Sorte de glossolalie par laquelle une personne en état de conscience modifiée, par exemple un médium, s’exprime dans une ou plusieurs langues étrangères qu’il semble n’avoir jamais apprises.".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for xénoglossie 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 xénoglossie, spelled X-É-N-O-G-L-O-S-S-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte de glossolalie par laquelle une personne en état de conscience modifiée, par exemple un médium, s’exprime dans une ou plusieurs langues étrangères qu’il semble n’avoir jamais apprises.
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