bring home the bacon

/\ˈbɹɪŋ ˈhəʊm ðə ˈbeɪ.kən\/ verb

Letters

20 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

bring home the bacon is aFrenchverb. It means: Gagner son bifteck. Pronounced \ˈbɹɪŋ ˈhəʊm ðə ˈbeɪ.kən\.

Key facts for bring home the bacon
PropertyValue
Headwordbring home the bacon
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ˈbɹɪŋ ˈhəʊm ðə ˈbeɪ.kən\
Letters20
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

bring home the bacon 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 bring home the bacon is 20 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈbɹɪŋ ˈhəʊm ðə ˈbeɪ.kən\. 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: "Gagner son bifteck.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for bring home the bacon 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 bring home the bacon, spelled B-R-I-N-G- -H-O-M-E- -T-H-E- -B-A-C-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Gagner son bifteck.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bring home the bacon"?
"bring home the bacon" is spelled B-R-I-N-G- -H-O-M-E- -T-H-E- -B-A-C-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈbɹɪŋ ˈhəʊm ðə ˈbeɪ.kən\.
What does "bring home the bacon" mean?
As a verb, "bring home the bacon" means: Gagner son bifteck.
How do you pronounce "bring home the bacon"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bring home the bacon" is \ˈbɹɪŋ ˈhəʊm ðə ˈbeɪ.kən\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bring home the bacon" 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.