brouter les pissenlits par la racine
The verdict
“brouter les pissenlits par la racine” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 36
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gésir dans la tombe, en parlant d'un défunt.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brouter-les-pissenlits-p · brouter les pissenlits par la racine · French
brouter les pissenlits par la racine · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 36 letters
- VOW-12 12 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brouter les pissenlits par la racine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 36 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brouter les pissenlits par la racine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brouter les pissenlits par la racine is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gésir dans la tombe, en parlant d'un défunt.".
brouter les pissenlits par la racine has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is brouter les pissenlits par la racine, spelled B-R-O-U-T-E-R- -L-E-S- -P-I-S-S-E-N-L-I-T-S- -P-A-R- -L-A- -R-A-C-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Gésir dans la tombe, en parlant d'un défunt.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how brouter les pissenlits par la racine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bon sang de bon sang ! n’allait-on pas aussi, un de ces quatre matins, lui servir un bouillon d’onze heures et l’envoyer brouter les pissenlits par la racine entre les quatre murs de l’enclos des morts !
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.