à la petite semaine

/\a la pə.tit sɛ.mɛn\/ adv

Letters

19 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

à la petite semaine is anFrenchadv. It means: Au jour le jour ; à court terme Pronounced \a la pə.tit sɛ.mɛn\.

Key facts for à la petite semaine
PropertyValue
Headwordà la petite semaine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\a la pə.tit sɛ.mɛn\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à la petite semaine 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 petite semaine is 19 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a la pə.tit sɛ.mɛn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

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

Definition

  1. 1
    Au jour le jour ; à court terme
  2. 2
    Médiocrement ; sans envergure.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à la petite semaine"?
"à la petite semaine" is spelled À- -L-A- -P-E-T-I-T-E- -S-E-M-A-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a la pə.tit sɛ.mɛn\.
What does "à la petite semaine" mean?
As an adv, "à la petite semaine" means: Au jour le jour ; à court terme
How do you pronounce "à la petite semaine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à la petite semaine" is \a la pə.tit sɛ.mɛn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à la petite semaine" 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.