à un jet de pierre

/\a œ̃ ʒɛ də pjɛʁ\/ adv

Letters

18 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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similar word pairs

à un jet de pierre is anFrenchadv. It means: Tout près. Pronounced \a œ̃ ʒɛ də pjɛʁ\.

Key facts for à un jet de pierre
PropertyValue
Headwordà un jet de pierre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\a œ̃ ʒɛ də pjɛʁ\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à un jet de pierre is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for à un jet de pierre is 18 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a œ̃ ʒɛ də pjɛʁ\. 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: "Tout près.".

No misspelling variants are generated for à un jet de pierre in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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 un jet de pierre, spelled À- -U-N- -J-E-T- -D-E- -P-I-E-R-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tout près.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à un jet de pierre"?
"à un jet de pierre" is spelled À- -U-N- -J-E-T- -D-E- -P-I-E-R-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a œ̃ ʒɛ də pjɛʁ\.
What does "à un jet de pierre" mean?
As an adv, "à un jet de pierre" means: Tout près.
How do you pronounce "à un jet de pierre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à un jet de pierre" is \a œ̃ ʒɛ də pjɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à un jet de pierre" come from?
"à un jet de pierre" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.