à mots couverts

/\a mo ku.vɛʁ\/ adv

Letters

15 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

à mots couverts is anFrenchadv. It means: En prenant soin de ne pas dévoiler ce que l’on pense réellement, en suggérant plutôt qu’en énonçant, en ne désignant pas directement les personnes dont on parle. Pronounced \a mo ku.vɛʁ\.

Key facts for à mots couverts
PropertyValue
Headwordà mots couverts
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\a mo ku.vɛʁ\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à mots couverts 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 mots couverts is 15 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a mo ku.vɛʁ\. 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: "En prenant soin de ne pas dévoiler ce que l’on pense réellement, en suggérant plutôt qu’en énonçant, en ne désignant pas directement les personnes dont on parle.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à mots couverts 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 mots couverts, spelled À- -M-O-T-S- -C-O-U-V-E-R-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    En prenant soin de ne pas dévoiler ce que l’on pense réellement, en suggérant plutôt qu’en énonçant, en ne désignant pas directement les personnes dont on parle.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à mots couverts"?
"à mots couverts" is spelled À- -M-O-T-S- -C-O-U-V-E-R-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \a mo ku.vɛʁ\.
What does "à mots couverts" mean?
As an adv, "à mots couverts" means: En prenant soin de ne pas dévoiler ce que l’on pense réellement, en suggérant plutôt qu’en énonçant, en ne désignant pas directement les personnes dont on parle.
How do you pronounce "à mots couverts"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à mots couverts" is \a mo ku.vɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à mots couverts" 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.