avoir sur le bord des lèvres
Letters
28 characters
Language
French
word origin
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avoir sur le bord des lèvres is aFrenchverb. It means: Être ou se croire tout près de se souvenir, en parlant d’un mot, d’un nom, d’une expression, qu’on a oublié et qu’on cherche à se rappeler. Pronounced \a.vwaʁ syʁ lə bɔʁ de lɛvʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avoir sur le bord des lèvres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ syʁ lə bɔʁ de lɛvʁ\ |
| Letters | 28 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for avoir sur le bord des lèvres is 28 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vwaʁ syʁ lə bɔʁ de lɛvʁ\. 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 misspelling variants are generated for avoir sur le bord des lèvres 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 avoir sur le bord des lèvres, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -S-U-R- -L-E- -B-O-R-D- -D-E-S- -L-È-V-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Être ou se croire tout près de se souvenir, en parlant d’un mot, d’un nom, d’une expression, qu’on a oublié et qu’on cherche à se rappeler.
- 2Éprouver une grande envie de dire, en parlant d’un aveu ; ou de révéler, en parlant d’un secret.
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