à laver la tête d’un More, on perd sa lessive

/\a la.ve la tɛt d‿œ̃ mɔ.ʁ‿ɔ̃ pɛʁ sa lɛ.siv\/ phrase

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French

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à laver la tête d’un More, on perd sa lessive is aFrenchphrase. It means: On se donne inutilement beaucoup de peine pour faire comprendre à un homme quelque chose qui passe sa portée, ou pour corriger un homme incorrigible. Pronounced \a la.ve la tɛt d‿œ̃ mɔ.ʁ‿ɔ̃ pɛʁ sa lɛ.siv\.

Key facts for à laver la tête d’un More, on perd sa lessive
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Headwordà laver la tête d’un More, on perd sa lessive
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPhrase
IPA\a la.ve la tɛt d‿œ̃ mɔ.ʁ‿ɔ̃ pɛʁ sa lɛ.siv\
Letters45
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à laver la tête d’un More, on perd sa lessive 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 laver la tête d’un More, on perd sa lessive is 45 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a la.ve la tɛt d‿œ̃ mɔ.ʁ‿ɔ̃ pɛʁ sa lɛ.siv\. 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: "On se donne inutilement beaucoup de peine pour faire comprendre à un homme quelque chose qui passe sa portée, ou pour corriger un homme incorrigible.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à laver la tête d’un More, on perd sa lessive 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 laver la tête d’un More, on perd sa lessive, spelled À- -L-A-V-E-R- -L-A- -T-Ê-T-E- -D-’-U-N- -M-O-R-E-,- -O-N- -P-E-R-D- -S-A- -L-E-S-S-I-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    On se donne inutilement beaucoup de peine pour faire comprendre à un homme quelque chose qui passe sa portée, ou pour corriger un homme incorrigible.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à laver la tête d’un More, on perd sa lessive"?
"à laver la tête d’un More, on perd sa lessive" is spelled À- -L-A-V-E-R- -L-A- -T-Ê-T-E- -D-’-U-N- -M-O-R-E-,- -O-N- -P-E-R-D- -S-A- -L-E-S-S-I-V-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a la.ve la tɛt d‿œ̃ mɔ.ʁ‿ɔ̃ pɛʁ sa lɛ.siv\.
What does "à laver la tête d’un More, on perd sa lessive" mean?
As a phrase, "à laver la tête d’un More, on perd sa lessive" means: On se donne inutilement beaucoup de peine pour faire comprendre à un homme quelque chose qui passe sa portée, ou pour corriger un homme incorrigible.
How do you pronounce "à laver la tête d’un More, on perd sa lessive"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à laver la tête d’un More, on perd sa lessive" is \a la.ve la tɛt d‿œ̃ mɔ.ʁ‿ɔ̃ pɛʁ sa lɛ.siv\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.