être à cheval sur les principes

/\ɛ.tʁ‿a ʃ(ə).val syʁ le pʁɛ̃.sip\/ verb

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Language

French

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être à cheval sur les principes is aFrenchverb. It means: Ne pas transiger sur les principes. Pronounced \ɛ.tʁ‿a ʃ(ə).val syʁ le pʁɛ̃.sip\.

Key facts for être à cheval sur les principes
PropertyValue
Headwordêtre à cheval sur les principes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛ.tʁ‿a ʃ(ə).val syʁ le pʁɛ̃.sip\
Letters31
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

être à cheval sur les principes 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 être à cheval sur les principes is 31 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ.tʁ‿a ʃ(ə).val syʁ le pʁɛ̃.sip\. 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: "Ne pas transiger sur les principes.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for être à cheval sur les principes 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 être à cheval sur les principes, spelled Ê-T-R-E- -À- -C-H-E-V-A-L- -S-U-R- -L-E-S- -P-R-I-N-C-I-P-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Ne pas transiger sur les principes.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "être à cheval sur les principes"?
"être à cheval sur les principes" is spelled Ê-T-R-E- -À- -C-H-E-V-A-L- -S-U-R- -L-E-S- -P-R-I-N-C-I-P-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ.tʁ‿a ʃ(ə).val syʁ le pʁɛ̃.sip\.
What does "être à cheval sur les principes" mean?
As a verb, "être à cheval sur les principes" means: Ne pas transiger sur les principes.
How do you pronounce "être à cheval sur les principes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "être à cheval sur les principes" is \ɛ.tʁ‿a ʃ(ə).val syʁ le pʁɛ̃.sip\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.