à la graisse de chevaux de bois

/\a la ɡʁɛs də ʃə.vo də bwa\/ adj

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Language

French

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à la graisse de chevaux de bois is anFrenchadj. It means: De la dernière qualité ; qui ne vaut rien. Pronounced \a la ɡʁɛs də ʃə.vo də bwa\.

Key facts for à la graisse de chevaux de bois
PropertyValue
Headwordà la graisse de chevaux de bois
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\a la ɡʁɛs də ʃə.vo də bwa\
Letters31
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à la graisse de chevaux de bois 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 la graisse de chevaux de bois is 31 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a la ɡʁɛs də ʃə.vo də bwa\. 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: "De la dernière qualité ; qui ne vaut rien.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à la graisse de chevaux de bois 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 la graisse de chevaux de bois, spelled À- -L-A- -G-R-A-I-S-S-E- -D-E- -C-H-E-V-A-U-X- -D-E- -B-O-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    De la dernière qualité ; qui ne vaut rien.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à la graisse de chevaux de bois"?
"à la graisse de chevaux de bois" is spelled À- -L-A- -G-R-A-I-S-S-E- -D-E- -C-H-E-V-A-U-X- -D-E- -B-O-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \a la ɡʁɛs də ʃə.vo də bwa\.
What does "à la graisse de chevaux de bois" mean?
As an adj, "à la graisse de chevaux de bois" means: De la dernière qualité ; qui ne vaut rien.
How do you pronounce "à la graisse de chevaux de bois"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à la graisse de chevaux de bois" is \a la ɡʁɛs də ʃə.vo də bwa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à la graisse de chevaux de bois" 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.