French Words: A
424,905 words · Page 217 of 8499
Ouverture ou trappe pratiquée dans un grenier au-dessus d’une écurie ou d’une étable et par laquelle on jette le foin ou la paille.
Cadre ou réflecteur en papier ou en tissu pourvu souvent d’une armature en métal que l’on place sur les lampes ou à tout autre éclairage pour diriger la lumière tout en protégeant les yeux de l’éblouissement.
Ensemble des lames obliques disposées dans les baies des beffrois des églises, les garantissant de la pluie et renvoyant le son vers le sol.
Assemblage de petites lames inclinées et parallèles, qui garantit du vent, de la neige et de la pluie les ouvertures d’une maison, d’un atelier, d’un clocher, etc., sans empêcher la circulation de l’air.
Dessus d’une chaire à prêcher, lequel sert à rabattre vers l’auditoire la voix du prédicateur.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French alphabetical index for the letter A contains 424,905 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 8,499 pages, and you are currently viewing page 217. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented French headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "A" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.