comme un cheveu dans la soupe

/\kɔ.m‿ɛ̃ ʃə.vø dɑ̃ la sup\/ adv

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29 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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comme un cheveu dans la soupe is anFrenchadv. It means: Inopportunément, absurdement, à l’improviste, au mauvais moment. Pronounced \kɔ.m‿ɛ̃ ʃə.vø dɑ̃ la sup\.

Key facts for comme un cheveu dans la soupe
PropertyValue
Headwordcomme un cheveu dans la soupe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\kɔ.m‿ɛ̃ ʃə.vø dɑ̃ la sup\
Letters29
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

comme un cheveu dans la soupe 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 comme un cheveu dans la soupe is 29 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.m‿ɛ̃ ʃə.vø dɑ̃ la sup\. 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: "Inopportunément, absurdement, à l’improviste, au mauvais moment.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for comme un cheveu dans la soupe 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 comme un cheveu dans la soupe, spelled C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -C-H-E-V-E-U- -D-A-N-S- -L-A- -S-O-U-P-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Inopportunément, absurdement, à l’improviste, au mauvais moment.

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How do you spell "comme un cheveu dans la soupe"?
"comme un cheveu dans la soupe" is spelled C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -C-H-E-V-E-U- -D-A-N-S- -L-A- -S-O-U-P-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.m‿ɛ̃ ʃə.vø dɑ̃ la sup\.
What does "comme un cheveu dans la soupe" mean?
As an adv, "comme un cheveu dans la soupe" means: Inopportunément, absurdement, à l’improviste, au mauvais moment.
How do you pronounce "comme un cheveu dans la soupe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "comme un cheveu dans la soupe" is \kɔ.m‿ɛ̃ ʃə.vø dɑ̃ la sup\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.