course à l’échalote
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Language
French
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course à l’échalote is aFrenchnoun. It means: Épreuve de course en duos où le second devait tenir le premier par le col et le fond du pantalon sans le lâcher. Pronounced \kuʁ.s‿a l‿e.ʃa.lɔt\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | course à l’échalote |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kuʁ.s‿a l‿e.ʃa.lɔt\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for course à l’échalote is 19 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kuʁ.s‿a l‿e.ʃa.lɔt\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for course à l’échalote 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 course à l’échalote, spelled C-O-U-R-S-E- -À- -L-’-É-C-H-A-L-O-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Épreuve de course en duos où le second devait tenir le premier par le col et le fond du pantalon sans le lâcher.
- 2Jeu ou brimade enfantine consistant à pousser un camarade en le tenant d’une main par le col et de l’autre par le fond du pantalon.
- 3Manière d’expulser quelqu’un en le prenant d’une main par le col et de l’autre par le fond du pantalon.
- 4Course-poursuite ; filature ; chasse.
- 5Compétition forcenée ou surenchère (électorale, hiérarchique, etc.), souvent autour d'une idée ou d'un thème.
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