à question idiote, réponse idiote

/\a kɛs.tjɔ̃ i.djɔt ʁe.pɔ̃.s‿i.djɔt\/ phrase

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Language

French

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à question idiote, réponse idiote is aFrenchphrase. It means: S’emploie pour justifier l’absurdité d’une réponse à une question jugée peu pertinente, insignifiante, ridicule ou bête. Pronounced \a kɛs.tjɔ̃ i.djɔt ʁe.pɔ̃.s‿i.djɔt\.

Key facts for à question idiote, réponse idiote
PropertyValue
Headwordà question idiote, réponse idiote
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPhrase
IPA\a kɛs.tjɔ̃ i.djɔt ʁe.pɔ̃.s‿i.djɔt\
Letters33
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à question idiote, réponse idiote 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 question idiote, réponse idiote is 33 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a kɛs.tjɔ̃ i.djɔt ʁe.pɔ̃.s‿i.djɔt\. 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: "S’emploie pour justifier l’absurdité d’une réponse à une question jugée peu pertinente, insignifiante, ridicule ou bête.".

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

Definition

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    S’emploie pour justifier l’absurdité d’une réponse à une question jugée peu pertinente, insignifiante, ridicule ou bête.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à question idiote, réponse idiote"?
"à question idiote, réponse idiote" is spelled À- -Q-U-E-S-T-I-O-N- -I-D-I-O-T-E-,- -R-É-P-O-N-S-E- -I-D-I-O-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a kɛs.tjɔ̃ i.djɔt ʁe.pɔ̃.s‿i.djɔt\.
What does "à question idiote, réponse idiote" mean?
As a phrase, "à question idiote, réponse idiote" means: S’emploie pour justifier l’absurdité d’une réponse à une question jugée peu pertinente, insignifiante, ridicule ou bête.
How do you pronounce "à question idiote, réponse idiote"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à question idiote, réponse idiote" is \a kɛs.tjɔ̃ i.djɔt ʁe.pɔ̃.s‿i.djɔt\. 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.