arrondir les angles
Letters
19 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
arrondir les angles is aFrenchverb. It means: Émousser les angles saillants, les rendre moins pointus. Pronounced \a.ʁɔ̃.diʁ lɛ.z‿ɑ̃ɡl\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arrondir les angles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ʁɔ̃.diʁ lɛ.z‿ɑ̃ɡl\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for arrondir les angles is 19 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ʁɔ̃.diʁ lɛ.z‿ɑ̃ɡl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for arrondir les angles 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 arrondir les angles, spelled A-R-R-O-N-D-I-R- -L-E-S- -A-N-G-L-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Émousser les angles saillants, les rendre moins pointus.
- 2S’adapter, s’adoucir pour ne pas heurter la sensibilité de publics différents ; avoir plus de tact ; user de plus de diplomatie.
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