crier au meurtre

/\kʁi.je.ʁ‿o mœʁtʁ\/ verb

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

crier au meurtre is aFrenchverb. It means: Se plaindre hautement de quelque injustice, de quelque dommage qu’on prétend avoir reçu. Pronounced \kʁi.je.ʁ‿o mœʁtʁ\.

Key facts for crier au meurtre
PropertyValue
Headwordcrier au meurtre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kʁi.je.ʁ‿o mœʁtʁ\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

crier au meurtre 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 crier au meurtre is 16 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁi.je.ʁ‿o mœʁtʁ\. 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: "Se plaindre hautement de quelque injustice, de quelque dommage qu’on prétend avoir reçu.".

No misspelling variants are generated for crier au meurtre 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 crier au meurtre, spelled C-R-I-E-R- -A-U- -M-E-U-R-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Se plaindre hautement de quelque injustice, de quelque dommage qu’on prétend avoir reçu.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "crier au meurtre"?
"crier au meurtre" is spelled C-R-I-E-R- -A-U- -M-E-U-R-T-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁi.je.ʁ‿o mœʁtʁ\.
What does "crier au meurtre" mean?
As a verb, "crier au meurtre" means: Se plaindre hautement de quelque injustice, de quelque dommage qu’on prétend avoir reçu.
How do you pronounce "crier au meurtre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "crier au meurtre" is \kʁi.je.ʁ‿o mœʁtʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "crier au meurtre" 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.