à petites journées

/\a pə.tit ʒuʁ.ne\/ adv

Letters

18 characters

Language

French

word origin

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à petites journées is anFrenchadv. It means: En avançant lentement, en faisant de nombreuses étapes. Pronounced \a pə.tit ʒuʁ.ne\.

Key facts for à petites journées
PropertyValue
Headwordà petites journées
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\a pə.tit ʒuʁ.ne\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à petites journées 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 petites journées is 18 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a pə.tit ʒuʁ.ne\. 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 avançant lentement, en faisant de nombreuses étapes.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à petites journées 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 petites journées, spelled À- -P-E-T-I-T-E-S- -J-O-U-R-N-É-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    En avançant lentement, en faisant de nombreuses étapes.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à petites journées"?
"à petites journées" is spelled À- -P-E-T-I-T-E-S- -J-O-U-R-N-É-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \a pə.tit ʒuʁ.ne\.
What does "à petites journées" mean?
As an adv, "à petites journées" means: En avançant lentement, en faisant de nombreuses étapes.
How do you pronounce "à petites journées"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à petites journées" is \a pə.tit ʒuʁ.ne\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à petites journées" 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.