la nuit, tous les chats sont gris

/[la.nɥi.tu.le.ʃa.sɔ̃.ɡʁi]/ phrase

Letters

33 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

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tracked variants

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similar word pairs

la nuit, tous les chats sont gris is aGermanphrase. It means: am späten Abend spielt das Aussehen von Mann und Frau keine Rolle mehr Pronounced [la.nɥi.tu.le.ʃa.sɔ̃.ɡʁi].

Key facts for la nuit, tous les chats sont gris
PropertyValue
Headwordla nuit, tous les chats sont gris
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[la.nɥi.tu.le.ʃa.sɔ̃.ɡʁi]
Letters33
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

la nuit, tous les chats sont gris 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 la nuit, tous les chats sont gris is 33 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [la.nɥi.tu.le.ʃa.sɔ̃.ɡʁi]. 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: "am späten Abend spielt das Aussehen von Mann und Frau keine Rolle mehr".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for la nuit, tous les chats sont gris 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 la nuit, tous les chats sont gris, spelled L-A- -N-U-I-T-,- -T-O-U-S- -L-E-S- -C-H-A-T-S- -S-O-N-T- -G-R-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    am späten Abend spielt das Aussehen von Mann und Frau keine Rolle mehr

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "la nuit, tous les chats sont gris"?
"la nuit, tous les chats sont gris" is spelled L-A- -N-U-I-T-,- -T-O-U-S- -L-E-S- -C-H-A-T-S- -S-O-N-T- -G-R-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is [la.nɥi.tu.le.ʃa.sɔ̃.ɡʁi].
What does "la nuit, tous les chats sont gris" mean?
As a phrase, "la nuit, tous les chats sont gris" means: am späten Abend spielt das Aussehen von Mann und Frau keine Rolle mehr
How do you pronounce "la nuit, tous les chats sont gris"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "la nuit, tous les chats sont gris" is [la.nɥi.tu.le.ʃa.sɔ̃.ɡʁi]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "la nuit, tous les chats sont gris" 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.