de Charybde en Scylla
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21 characters
Language
French
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de Charybde en Scylla is anFrenchadv. It means: De mal en pis, de pire en pire, d’un péril vers un autre plus grand encore. Pronounced \də ka.ʁib.d‿ɑ̃ si.la\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | de Charybde en Scylla |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | \də ka.ʁib.d‿ɑ̃ si.la\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for de Charybde en Scylla is 21 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \də ka.ʁib.d‿ɑ̃ si.la\. 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: "De mal en pis, de pire en pire, d’un péril vers un autre plus grand encore.".
No misspelling variants are generated for de Charybde en Scylla 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 de Charybde en Scylla, spelled D-E- -C-H-A-R-Y-B-D-E- -E-N- -S-C-Y-L-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1De mal en pis, de pire en pire, d’un péril vers un autre plus grand encore.
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