absent le chat, les souris dansent

/[ap.sɑ̃ lə ʃa le su.ʁi dɑ̃s]/ phrase

Letters

34 characters

Language

German

word origin

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absent le chat, les souris dansent is aGermanphrase. It means: bei fehlender Aufsicht nutzen manche die Situation aus, indem sie sich unbekümmert Dinge erlauben, die sonst nicht geduldet würden, indem sie sich Freiheiten herausnehmen, die ihnen sonst nicht zus... Pronounced [ap.sɑ̃ lə ʃa le su.ʁi dɑ̃s].

Key facts for absent le chat, les souris dansent
PropertyValue
Headwordabsent le chat, les souris dansent
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ap.sɑ̃ lə ʃa le su.ʁi dɑ̃s]
Letters34
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

absent le chat, les souris dansent is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for absent le chat, les souris dansent is 34 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ap.sɑ̃ lə ʃa le su.ʁi dɑ̃s]. 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: "bei fehlender Aufsicht nutzen manche die Situation aus, indem sie sich unbekümmert Dinge erlauben, die sonst nicht geduldet würden, indem sie sich Freiheiten herausnehmen, die ihnen sonst nicht zus...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for absent le chat, les souris dansent in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German 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 German form is absent le chat, les souris dansent, spelled A-B-S-E-N-T- -L-E- -C-H-A-T-,- -L-E-S- -S-O-U-R-I-S- -D-A-N-S-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    bei fehlender Aufsicht nutzen manche die Situation aus, indem sie sich unbekümmert Dinge erlauben, die sonst nicht geduldet würden, indem sie sich Freiheiten herausnehmen, die ihnen sonst nicht zustehen (wortwörtlich: „[ist] die Katze abwesend, tanzen die Mäuse“)

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "absent le chat, les souris dansent"?
"absent le chat, les souris dansent" is spelled A-B-S-E-N-T- -L-E- -C-H-A-T-,- -L-E-S- -S-O-U-R-I-S- -D-A-N-S-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is [ap.sɑ̃ lə ʃa le su.ʁi dɑ̃s].
What does "absent le chat, les souris dansent" mean?
As a phrase, "absent le chat, les souris dansent" means: bei fehlender Aufsicht nutzen manche die Situation aus, indem sie sich unbekümmert Dinge erlauben, die sonst nicht geduldet würden, indem sie sich Freiheiten herausnehmen, die ihnen sonst nicht zus...
How do you pronounce "absent le chat, les souris dansent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "absent le chat, les souris dansent" is [ap.sɑ̃ lə ʃa le su.ʁi dɑ̃s]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.