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"ipa": "[ˈfɹʷeɪ̯ŋk] ~ [ˈfɹʷɛ̃ŋk]",
"note": "US, Canada, æ-raising"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-frank.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1d/En-us-frank.ogg/En-us-frank.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/En-us-frank.ogg",
"tags": [
"US",
"æ-tensing"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/fɹæːŋk/",
"tags": [
"Australia"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈfɹʷæːŋk]",
"tags": [
"Australia"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈfɹʷeːŋk]",
"note": "æ-raising",
"tags": [
"Australia"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/fɹɛŋk/",
"tags": [
"New-Zealand"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-æŋk"
},
{
"homophone": "franc"
},
{
"homophone": "Frank"
}
],
"word": "frank"
}
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"en:Personality",
"en:Post",
"en:Sausages",
"pl:Comoros",
"pl:Currencies",
"pl:Historical currencies",
"pl:History of Belgium",
"pl:History of France",
"pl:History of Luxembourg",
"pl:History of Monaco",
"pl:Liechtenstein",
"pl:Switzerland"
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"2": "fr",
"3": "franc"
},
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"name": "der"
}
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"form": "franks",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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}
],
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{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "franc"
},
{
"word": "former French coins"
},
{
"word": "moneys of account"
},
{
"word": "and currency"
}
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"ref": "1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 630",
"text": "Frank, or Franc, an ancient coin, either of gold or ſilver, ſtruck and current in France. The value of the gold frank was ſomewhat more than that of the gold crown; the ſilver frank was a third of the gold one; this coin is long out of uſe, though the term is ſtill retained as the name of a money of account; in which ſenſe it is equivalent to the livre, or twenty ſols."
}
],
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"Obsolete form of franc, former French coins, moneys of account, and currency."
],
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[
"franc",
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"former",
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[
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],
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}
],
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{
"ipa": "/fɹæŋk/",
"note": "without æ-raising",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈfɹʷæŋk]",
"note": "without æ-raising",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/fɹaŋk/",
"tags": [
"British",
"Northern-England",
"Southern",
"Standard"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/fɾaŋk/",
"tags": [
"Scotland",
"Wales"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/fɹeɪ̯ŋk/",
"note": "US, Canada, æ-raising"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈfɹʷeɪ̯ŋk] ~ [ˈfɹʷɛ̃ŋk]",
"note": "US, Canada, æ-raising"
},
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"audio": "en-us-frank.ogg",
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"tags": [
"US",
"æ-tensing"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/fɹæːŋk/",
"tags": [
"Australia"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈfɹʷæːŋk]",
"tags": [
"Australia"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈfɹʷeːŋk]",
"note": "æ-raising",
"tags": [
"Australia"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/fɹɛŋk/",
"tags": [
"New-Zealand"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-æŋk"
},
{
"homophone": "franc"
},
{
"homophone": "Frank"
}
],
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}
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