cacher la poussière sous le tapis

/\ka.ʃe la pu.sjɛʁ su lə ta.pi\/ verb

Letters

33 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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cacher la poussière sous le tapis is aFrenchverb. It means: Dissimuler, remettre à plus tard quelque chose, généralement embarrassant. Pronounced \ka.ʃe la pu.sjɛʁ su lə ta.pi\.

Key facts for cacher la poussière sous le tapis
PropertyValue
Headwordcacher la poussière sous le tapis
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ka.ʃe la pu.sjɛʁ su lə ta.pi\
Letters33
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

cacher la poussière sous le tapis is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cacher la poussière sous le tapis is 33 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.ʃe la pu.sjɛʁ su lə ta.pi\. 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: "Dissimuler, remettre à plus tard quelque chose, généralement embarrassant.".

No misspelling variants are generated for cacher la poussière sous le tapis 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 cacher la poussière sous le tapis, spelled C-A-C-H-E-R- -L-A- -P-O-U-S-S-I-È-R-E- -S-O-U-S- -L-E- -T-A-P-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dissimuler, remettre à plus tard quelque chose, généralement embarrassant.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cacher la poussière sous le tapis"?
"cacher la poussière sous le tapis" is spelled C-A-C-H-E-R- -L-A- -P-O-U-S-S-I-È-R-E- -S-O-U-S- -L-E- -T-A-P-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.ʃe la pu.sjɛʁ su lə ta.pi\.
What does "cacher la poussière sous le tapis" mean?
As a verb, "cacher la poussière sous le tapis" means: Dissimuler, remettre à plus tard quelque chose, généralement embarrassant.
How do you pronounce "cacher la poussière sous le tapis"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cacher la poussière sous le tapis" is \ka.ʃe la pu.sjɛʁ su lə ta.pi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cacher la poussière sous le tapis" come from?
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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.