croc-en-jambe
Letters
13 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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Confusables
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croc-en-jambe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de renverser quelqu’un en lui plaçant dans les jambes, soit son pied, soit sa jambe. Pronounced \kʁɔ.k‿ɑ̃.ʒɑ̃b\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | croc-en-jambe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɔ.k‿ɑ̃.ʒɑ̃b\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for croc-en-jambe is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁɔ.k‿ɑ̃.ʒɑ̃b\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for croc-en-jambe 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 croc-en-jambe, spelled C-R-O-C---E-N---J-A-M-B-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de renverser quelqu’un en lui plaçant dans les jambes, soit son pied, soit sa jambe.
- 2Manière adroite qu’on emploie pour supplanter quelqu’un, pour le faire déchoir de ses droits, de sa place ou de ses prétentions.
- 3Événement qui interrompt brutalement une action en créant du mécontentement.
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