boire comme un sonneur

/\bwaʁ kɔ.m‿œ̃ sɔ.nœʁ\/ verb

The verdict

“boire comme un sonneur” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
22
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Boire excessivement.

Key facts for boire comme un sonneur
PropertyValue
Headwordboire comme un sonneur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\bwaʁ kɔ.m‿œ̃ sɔ.nœʁ\
Letters22
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “boire comme un sonneur” sits in French frequency

boire comme un sonneur falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for boire comme un sonneur is 22 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bwaʁ kɔ.m‿œ̃ sɔ.nœʁ\. 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: "Boire excessivement.".

No misspelling variants are generated for boire comme un sonneur 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 boire comme un sonneur, spelled B-O-I-R-E- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -S-O-N-N-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Boire excessivement.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "boire comme un sonneur"?
"boire comme un sonneur" is spelled B-O-I-R-E- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -S-O-N-N-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \bwaʁ kɔ.m‿œ̃ sɔ.nœʁ\.
What does "boire comme un sonneur" mean?
As a verb, "boire comme un sonneur" means: Boire excessivement.
How do you pronounce "boire comme un sonneur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "boire comme un sonneur" is \bwaʁ kɔ.m‿œ̃ sɔ.nœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “boire comme un sonneur”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is B-O-I-R-E- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -S-O-N-N-E-U-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \bwaʁ kɔ.m‿œ̃ sɔ.nœʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.