court sur jambes

/\kuʁ syʁ ʒɑ̃b\/ adj

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

word origin

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court sur jambes is anFrenchadj. It means: Petit, même debout, en parlant d'une personne ou d'un animal. Pronounced \kuʁ syʁ ʒɑ̃b\.

Key facts for court sur jambes
PropertyValue
Headwordcourt sur jambes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\kuʁ syʁ ʒɑ̃b\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

court sur jambes 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 court sur jambes is 16 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kuʁ syʁ ʒɑ̃b\. 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: "Petit, même debout, en parlant d'une personne ou d'un animal.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for court sur jambes 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 court sur jambes, spelled C-O-U-R-T- -S-U-R- -J-A-M-B-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Petit, même debout, en parlant d'une personne ou d'un animal.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "court sur jambes"?
"court sur jambes" is spelled C-O-U-R-T- -S-U-R- -J-A-M-B-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \kuʁ syʁ ʒɑ̃b\.
What does "court sur jambes" mean?
As an adj, "court sur jambes" means: Petit, même debout, en parlant d'une personne ou d'un animal.
How do you pronounce "court sur jambes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "court sur jambes" is \kuʁ syʁ ʒɑ̃b\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "court sur jambes" 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.