à gros sabots
\a ɡʁo sa.bo\
The verdict
“à gros sabots” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sans finesse ni subtilité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-a-gros-sabots · à gros sabots · French
à gros sabots · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "À" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | à gros sabots |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \a ɡʁo sa.bo\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
à gros sabots is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \a ɡʁo sa.bo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sans finesse ni subtilité.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for à gros sabots in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is à gros sabots, spelled À- -G-R-O-S- -S-A-B-O-T-S.
Definition
- 1Sans finesse ni subtilité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how à gros sabots appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], dit Lucile, Parisienne de 16 ans, élève de seconde au lycée Charlemagne. Il y a eu la “bof”, la “bosse”, je sens venir à gros sabots la “beauf” génération.
Toutefois, là où Julien se croyait subtil, il a dû avancer à gros sabots, car Mickaël s'amuse de la question et lui répond franchement alors que les demandes ne l'étaient pas, franches.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.