à Rome, on fait comme les Romains

/\a ʁɔ.m‿ɔ̃ fɛ kɔm le ʁɔ.mɛ̃\/ phrase

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Language

French

word origin

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à Rome, on fait comme les Romains is aFrenchphrase. It means: Variante de à Rome, fais comme les Romains. Pronounced \a ʁɔ.m‿ɔ̃ fɛ kɔm le ʁɔ.mɛ̃\.

Key facts for à Rome, on fait comme les Romains
PropertyValue
Headwordà Rome, on fait comme les Romains
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPhrase
IPA\a ʁɔ.m‿ɔ̃ fɛ kɔm le ʁɔ.mɛ̃\
Letters33
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à Rome, on fait comme les Romains 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 Rome, on fait comme les Romains is 33 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a ʁɔ.m‿ɔ̃ fɛ kɔm le ʁɔ.mɛ̃\. 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: "Variante de à Rome, fais comme les Romains.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à Rome, on fait comme les Romains 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 Rome, on fait comme les Romains, spelled À- -R-O-M-E-,- -O-N- -F-A-I-T- -C-O-M-M-E- -L-E-S- -R-O-M-A-I-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Variante de à Rome, fais comme les Romains.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à Rome, on fait comme les Romains"?
"à Rome, on fait comme les Romains" is spelled À- -R-O-M-E-,- -O-N- -F-A-I-T- -C-O-M-M-E- -L-E-S- -R-O-M-A-I-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is \a ʁɔ.m‿ɔ̃ fɛ kɔm le ʁɔ.mɛ̃\.
What does "à Rome, on fait comme les Romains" mean?
As a phrase, "à Rome, on fait comme les Romains" means: Variante de à Rome, fais comme les Romains.
How do you pronounce "à Rome, on fait comme les Romains"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à Rome, on fait comme les Romains" is \a ʁɔ.m‿ɔ̃ fɛ kɔm le ʁɔ.mɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à Rome, on fait comme les Romains" 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.