à la petite semelle
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19 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
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à la petite semelle is anFrenchadv. It means: Sans grande valeur, sans engagement ou motivation, avec légèreté, en amateur. Pronounced \ɑ lɑ pə.tit sə.mɛl\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | à la petite semelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | \ɑ lɑ pə.tit sə.mɛl\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for à la petite semelle is 19 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ lɑ pə.tit sə.mɛl\. 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 semelle 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 semelle, spelled À- -L-A- -P-E-T-I-T-E- -S-E-M-E-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sans grande valeur, sans engagement ou motivation, avec légèreté, en amateur.
- 2Travailler à la petite semelle : faire le tapin.
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