auberge espagnole

/\o.bɛʁ.ʒ‿ɛs.pa.ɲɔl\/ noun

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Language

French

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auberge espagnole is aFrenchnoun. It means: Auberge où l'on ne sert pas à manger, où l’on ne mange que ce que l’on a apporté. Pronounced \o.bɛʁ.ʒ‿ɛs.pa.ɲɔl\.

Key facts for auberge espagnole
PropertyValue
Headwordauberge espagnole
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\o.bɛʁ.ʒ‿ɛs.pa.ɲɔl\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

auberge espagnole 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 auberge espagnole is 17 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o.bɛʁ.ʒ‿ɛs.pa.ɲɔl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for auberge espagnole 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 auberge espagnole, spelled A-U-B-E-R-G-E- -E-S-P-A-G-N-O-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Auberge où l'on ne sert pas à manger, où l’on ne mange que ce que l’on a apporté.
  2. 2
    Repas qui consiste à manger ce que chaque convive a apporté.
  3. 3
    Idée à la mode, un peu creuse, où chacun comprend le sens qu’il amène.
  4. 4
    Groupe, parti ou liste électorale composite, dont les participants ou membres proviennent d’horizons divers et variés, voire initialement opposés
  5. 5
    Ensemble hétéroclite, sans unité.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "auberge espagnole"?
"auberge espagnole" is spelled A-U-B-E-R-G-E- -E-S-P-A-G-N-O-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \o.bɛʁ.ʒ‿ɛs.pa.ɲɔl\.
What does "auberge espagnole" mean?
As a noun, "auberge espagnole" means: Auberge où l'on ne sert pas à manger, où l’on ne mange que ce que l’on a apporté.
How do you pronounce "auberge espagnole"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "auberge espagnole" is \o.bɛʁ.ʒ‿ɛs.pa.ɲɔl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "auberge espagnole" 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.