envoyer des piques

/\ɑ̃.vwa.je de pik\/ verb

Letters

18 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

envoyer des piques is aFrenchverb. It means: Dire des choses désagréables à son interlocuteur pour l'agacer ou le provoquer. Pronounced \ɑ̃.vwa.je de pik\.

Key facts for envoyer des piques
PropertyValue
Headwordenvoyer des piques
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɑ̃.vwa.je de pik\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

envoyer des piques 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 envoyer des piques is 18 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.vwa.je de pik\. 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: "Dire des choses désagréables à son interlocuteur pour l'agacer ou le provoquer.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for envoyer des piques 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 envoyer des piques, spelled E-N-V-O-Y-E-R- -D-E-S- -P-I-Q-U-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dire des choses désagréables à son interlocuteur pour l'agacer ou le provoquer.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "envoyer des piques"?
"envoyer des piques" is spelled E-N-V-O-Y-E-R- -D-E-S- -P-I-Q-U-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.vwa.je de pik\.
What does "envoyer des piques" mean?
As a verb, "envoyer des piques" means: Dire des choses désagréables à son interlocuteur pour l'agacer ou le provoquer.
How do you pronounce "envoyer des piques"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "envoyer des piques" is \ɑ̃.vwa.je de pik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "envoyer des piques" 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.