à gros sabots
\a ɡʁo sa.bo\
The verdict
“à gros sabots” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Sans finesse ni subtilité.
| 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) |
Where “à gros sabots” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for à gros sabots is 13 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a ɡʁo sa.bo\. 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: "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.
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.
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Using “à gros sabots”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is À- -G-R-O-S- -S-A-B-O-T-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.