à belles mains

/\a bɛl mɛ̃\/ adv

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

à belles mains is anFrenchadv. It means: Abondamment, libéralement, autant qu’on en veut. Pronounced \a bɛl mɛ̃\.

Key facts for à belles mains
PropertyValue
Headwordà belles mains
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\a bɛl mɛ̃\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à belles mains is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for à belles mains is 14 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a bɛl mɛ̃\. 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: "Abondamment, libéralement, autant qu’on en veut.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à belles mains 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 à belles mains, spelled À- -B-E-L-L-E-S- -M-A-I-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Abondamment, libéralement, autant qu’on en veut.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à belles mains"?
"à belles mains" is spelled À- -B-E-L-L-E-S- -M-A-I-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is \a bɛl mɛ̃\.
What does "à belles mains" mean?
As an adv, "à belles mains" means: Abondamment, libéralement, autant qu’on en veut.
How do you pronounce "à belles mains"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à belles mains" is \a bɛl mɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à belles mains" 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.